Marriage licenses are a tool by which
the issuing judicatory can create and maintain «vital statistics» filings for a county, state, and federal government.
Not exact matches
Black church people receive limited guidance from their national
judicatories on such
issues as abortion, homosexuality, capital punishment, women's rights.
One reason is that denominational and
judicatory officials have shifted their attention away from such «private»
issues as education and toward public policy and social change.