Sentences with phrase «heterosexual unions»

Although much of the CCV literature has focused on the experiences of men and women in heterosexual unions, domestic abuse is not limited to that population.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Furthermore there is no rational argument for equating homosexual union, which is anatomically and physiologically dysfunctional and unproductive of new life, with heterosexual union.

Moreover, absent a miracle, each of us owes our living existence to exactly one man and one woman — no more, no less, no other — and, thus, to one act of heterosexual union.

What we often neglect to say: The lesbian and feminist association «The Well Born» («Les Bien Nées») indicates on its website the four forms that 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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

His point, if we read him aright, is that Americans prefer homosexual unions over heterosexual.

What will it mean for homosexual unions (or heterosexual ones, in our difficult times) to «keep the sabbath»?

«Today's opinion dismantles the structure of constitutional law that has permitted a distinction to be made between heterosexual and homosexual unions, insofar as a formal recognition in marriage is concerned,» wrote Scalia.

The relevant loci are the creation story, the Sixth Commandment, Ephesians 5 with its meditation on marriage as a sacramental sign of the union of Christ and his Church, the end of Revelation with its depiction of the marriage of the Lamb, and the whole narrative stream of Holy Scripture that assumes the heterosexual monogamous norm, despite the fact of royal and patriarchal polygamy.

Yet critics of homosexual unions overlook the extent to which our societies are addicted to sexualization and sentimentality and are inclined to excuse these factors in the case of heterosexuals.

At another point, he writes that the «openness of the contract» between two homosexual males means that such a union will in fact be more durable than a heterosexual marriage because the contract contains an «understanding of the need for extramarital outlets» (emphasis added).

He added that the Church would not judge people in gay relationships, but said: «To bless this type of union, to say that they are like [heterosexual] marriages, never.

Such unions will not have all the ideal elements of heterosexual marriage, but they can be far closer to that ideal than many heterosexual marriages actually are.

Heterosexuals need not fear that «the gays» are a threat to «Holy unions».

Take, for instance, last summer the State of Illinois revoked Catholic Charity's adoption and foster care licensebecause Catholic Charities didn't comply with the «Illinois Religious Freedom Protection and Civil Union Act,» which says gay couples must be treated the same way as heterosexual couples.

Does the heterosexual couple uniting in marriage today lift up the union as characterized by love, fidelity, intimacy and forgiveness.

If many heterosexual couples are choosing civil unions (the French PACS — see the below chart), this must be because they find this form of union in their interest, in particular the economic and legal parameters that define the material interests of the parties (housing, finances, social insurance, etc.).

The structures of the romance genre — which rely upon white, middle - class, able - bodied, and heterosexual norms of social mobility and citizenship through the marriage union — make a nonstereotypical and nondiscriminatory inclusion of black and disabled people quite difficult, since social mobility, rights of citizenship, and marriage are still actively denied to black and disabled people.»

A civil union is also a legal status that provides many of the same protections that a marriage offers to both same - sex and heterosexual couples.

The comparison of same - sex marriage vs. civil union is really no different than comparing legal heterosexual marriages and civil unions.

In 2005, a report by the State of Our Unions said that 8.1 % of all coupled households were unmarried heterosexuals.

If you are experiencing difficulties in your relationship — be it long - term or new, monogamous or polyamorous, heterosexual or same - sex, or any other kind of romantic union — chances are someone else, or another couple, has been through a similar situation.

We employ the factorial method, an extension of the actor — partner interdependence model, to analyze survey data from 808 midlife gay, lesbian, and heterosexual spouses in 404 unions.