Sentences with phrase «homosexual couples»

So I believe this is true of homosexual couples as well.

I then ask myself a very simple question: can I deny homosexual couples what I am personally experiencing in the way of blessings and joy in a relationship?

Catholic adoption agencies warn they will be forced to close agencies, rather than place children with homosexual couples.

If marriage is a «lifestyle» choice for heterosexual couples, as people seem to believe, why should homosexual couples not be allowed to marry?

That is why many homosexual couples can say that they do not experience any negative repercussions.

This meant Catholic adoption agencies had to allow homosexual couples to adopt children in their care, although many agencies claimed they would shut down before they submitted to the legislation.

It would undertake to provide social support of homosexual couples through difficult times as it does with heterosexual couples.

Thus, the thousands of homosexual couples came to make the certificates of marriage.

You all have far more just laws for homosexual couples than we do.

Many homosexual couples have maintained a commitment to each other that has been fulfilling over time.

The number of children of homosexual couples has also been greatly exaggerated.

By Mary Minihan.The Civil Partnership Bill is being examined by the Department of Finance to ensure homosexual couples who register their relationships will receive the same tax treatment as married couples.Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern has indicated the name of the proposed legislation will be...

There is no question of denying the suffering experienced by homosexual couples owing to their infertility — a suffering they share with heterosexual couples who can not procreate.

Online dating is now the most common way homosexual couples meet and second most common way heterosexual couples meet, and 15 % of Americans say they've tried...... kroner (four pence), which will decrease to three pence when the

Another audacious move from Russell, touching on controversial topics like homosexual couples adopting children and drug use; however, such themes are weaved into the story in such a manner that they organically blend within the characters» world.

What is wrong, what is unnatural, what is immoral and what is gross is intolerance and discrimination against fellow human beings for their sexual orientation and active pursuit of preventing loving and committed homosexual couples from legally being married.

Olson also invoked «fundamental rights» and was queried by Justice Scalia as to just exactly when it became unconstitutional to exclude homosexual couples from marriage: 1791 with the Bill of Rights, 1868 with the 14th Amendment, or some other date, perhaps after the Court declined in 1971 to review a Minnesota Supreme Court decision upholding opposite - sex marriage requirements?

The question before us was whether the states would be obliged to honor the marriage of homosexual couples if the courts in Hawaii delivered to the country that unsolicited gift.

Can a Domestic Assault Charge arise between Homosexual Couples?

The Civil Partnership Bill is being examined by the Department of Finance to ensure homosexual couples who register their relationships will receive the same tax treatment as married couples.

In a letter to all cabinet ministers, he wrote: «Catholic teaching about the foundations of family life, a teaching shared not only by other Christian churches but also other faiths, means that Catholic adoption agencies would not be able to recruit and consider homosexual couples as potential adoptive parents.

The laws that permit marriage only to couples of the opposite sex, and yet withhold that recognition from couples of the same sex, could be seen then as holding back from conferring this recognition on homosexual couples only because of an adverse moral judgment; a judgment now stamped as deeply wrong.

It denies homosexual couples permission to marry, with male homosexuals having been charged under anti-sodomy laws in the past.

The adoption bill permitted homosexual couples jointly to adopt and in another strike against the status of marriage also allowed unmarried couples to adopt.

The argument that is being debated now falls, in terms of some of its aspects (not cohabitation in general so much as male homosexual couples specifically), within limits that are held to be inviolable.

He did, however, raise objections to counseling homosexual couples suffering only from sexual dysfunction.

Homosexual couples simply can not perform a unitive act (which I defined in a previous comment).

The Civil Partnership Act was passed in 2004 (and came into force in 2005), giving homosexual couples the right to have a civil ceremony that gave them most — but not all — of the legal rights given to married couples.

He goes on to say, «Article 9 of the Charter simply leaves it to States to decide whether they wish to afford homosexual couples the right to marry» — and this in the context of a decision about civil, not religious marriage.

He invested in the health care system, banned junk food in schools, prohibited smoking just about anywhere (including private cars if children under 15 are in them), removed taxes on bikes, brought in free immunizations, protected boreal forests, instituted wine and liquor bottle deposit returns, changed the definition of marriage to include homosexual couples.

Davis» refusal to sign marriage licenses for homosexual couples resulted in a brief jail stay for the devout Christian, followed by a concession that her office would, indeed, issue marriage licenses to same - sex couples as long as Davis» name was not on the documents.

Recently there was a parliamentary decision in Portugal that approved a referendum to the co-adoption and adoption by homosexual couples (already allowed to marry).

Online dating is now the most common way homosexual couples meet and second most common way heterosexual couples meet, and 15 % of Americans say they've tried...

Online dating is now the most common way homosexual couples meet and second most common way...

Among Theresa May's tactics for sounding reasonable was to pretend to think that what we were really worried about was whether or not we would have to «marry» homosexual couples in Church:

Such experimentation runs contrary to the dignity of the child and suggests a fundamental self - indulgence on the part of homosexual couples adopting children, which is not to deny their unselfishness on many other levels.

Homosexual couples who want to commit themselves to a monogamous lifelong relationship find themselves in the same situation as anyone else who cohabits without benefit of marriage.

for me a committed homosexual couple is the same as a committed heterosexual couple; not the same as a rapist, pedophile, or drunk.

The Daily Mail opposes it for as many of the right reasons as it is now possible for a secular paper to admit to: «This legislation,» it said, «which not even Stonewall, the most persistent gay rights group, was agitating for, is not just about allowing homosexual couples to have a wedding rather than a civil partnership.

Proposal 8 was put on the ballot in response to a decision in May by the California Supreme Court, which ordered the state to begin processing marriage licenses for same - sex couples... Advocates of same - sex marriage in New York have found a loyal supporter in Mr. Paterson, who directed all state agencies earlier this year to recognize marriages between homosexual couples that were performed outside the state.»