Sentences with phrase «heterosexual union»

Same - sex couples aren't so different from those of heterosexual unions, except that they don't have the luxury of being considered the societal norm.

Thatcher argues that gay and lesbian sexual unions express the sacrament of God's divine love just as heterosexual unions do.

However, the results of the present study suggest that the association between perceptions of (in) equity (here, with respect to doing the «work» of relationship maintenance) and positive relational outcomes is different for men than for women in heterosexual unions.

A consensual monogamous heterosexual union, in intention lifelong, between parties outside Levitical degrees of kindred and affinity, was Christianity's legacy, through the medieval canon law, to the law of England.

Babies and children have a right to be raised in the context of a heterosexual union: their origin was the sacred interplay, and they deserve to be raised in an atmosphere respectful of the same.

In the future, fewer people will marry, more people who marry will divorce, more people who many will do so later in life, more people will cohabit, fewer people will have children, more people who have children will do so outside of marriage and more people will want to form informal unions of various kinds and experiment with reproductive technologies outside of either marriage or heterosexual unions.

The author is in favor of «civil union» as a concept more in keeping with our restrained sense of law and less tilted toward the equating of gay and heterosexual unions.

Thus I remain in favor of «civil union» as a concept more in keeping with our restrained sense of law and less tilted toward the equating of gay and heterosexual unions.

Even the liberal churches strongly urge monogamy, though not insisting on legally binding or heterosexual unions.

What we often neglect to say: The lesbian and feminist association LesBienNées (The Well - Born) gives the four forms homosexual parenting would take following its legal authorization: «It can be the result of a family's recomposition with a partner of the same sex following a heterosexual union.

Did the performance emphasize the nonsensical restriction on marriage equality, or could it also be repurposed by conservative interests to support the position that indeed all marriages outside the confines of heterosexual unions are «unnatural»?

For them, as for other couples dealing with issues of sexual identity, Kristen and Peter all too painfully recognized that a heterosexual union does not work for either one.