Sentences with phrase «marriage than sex»
We have been together 5 years and know that there is more to marriage than sex.
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More than 190 representing both Christian and Jewish denominations received the waivers from the mid-1970s through the late 1990s, seeking permission, for example, to only hire male teachers for certain positions or to sanction students or employees who had sex outside marriage.
Less than half of David Cameron's party voted in favour of same - sex marriage, with the Prime Minister needing support from other parties to get the legislation through.
It was, rather, to show proponents of same - sex marriage that «the other side» is reasonable and that their arguments are worth engaging, rather than dismissing out of hand as irrational and merely or privately religious.
To live celibacy well requires in some ways a deeper healing, and a more dramatic inner transformation than opposite sex marriage would require.
And Family Research Council President Tony Perkins says the last time his conservative Christian movement saw so many victories at the state level — where many legislatures are busy passing new abortion restrictions - was in 2004, when more than a dozen states adopted same - sex marriage bans.
There is an argument that prejudice, rather than real moral and prudential concerns, motivates the bans on same - sex marriage.
She is personally in favour of same - sex marriage but believes that silence is more harmful than teaching the classic biblical interpretation in a sensitive way.
Until recently, the Richland, Washington, shop was better known for its artistic arrangements than its stance on same - sex marriage.
And they are slightly more supportive than their elders of government efforts to protect morality...» Back in March of this year, The Pew Forum made news when it reported that 70 % of millennials are in favor of same - sex marriage.
Tea Party supporters are «much more likely than registered voters as a whole to say that their religion is the most important factor in determining their opinions on... social issues» like abortion and same - sex marriage, according to the Pew analysis.
To make the latter claim is to run counter to the approach of much popular and well - intentioned Catholic thought, thought that has tended to so exalt the goodness of sex that it has often seemed to imply that marriage is for sex rather than sex being for family.
It's much easier to passively watch Anastasia and Christian have hyper - orgasmic sex than it is to sow into our own marriages or grieve the reality that we don't have a spouse.
Second, restricting marriage by sex is no less egregious than doing so by race.
BTW — The following passage is far more clear than the supposed claims of scriptural condemnation against homosexual orientation / sex / marriage.
I also was aware of the hypocrisy of how «gay» sin, or «non-virgin» sin, or other «moral» issues, were regarded far far differently than sins of omission, white lies, tax fudging, white collar crime in general (who is more sinful, the girl that has sex before marriage, or the CEO that knows his company is lax on pollution standards that affect the health of hundreds / thousands of people and animals that live nearby)
Similarly, while there may be some value in the refusal to take a moral stance on homosexuality — in order to focus squarely on the nature of marriage rather than on same - sex relationships — I am less than persuaded by the authors» moral judgment that people's sexual relationships are a private issue.
The father in the story may have really meant that it would be better if he himself was dead rather than to be subjected to daily reminders that his teen rejects his moral values and family rules — specifically the one pertaining to sex outside of marriage.
More than a few «conservatives» have endorsed same - sex marriage, and even invoked conservative principles in doing so.
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Where, at the beginning of the novel, marriage has already occurred, love may well be sought outside marriage; the rendering of a love that both issues in marriage and develops and matures within it is much less usual... The more recent convention that «love» is the precondition not of marriage but of» sex» is a natural development of tradition rather than a reaction against it.»
Same - sex marriages are no more a threat to the institution of marriage than heterosexual «open marriages» where both partners consent to mutual adulterous behavior.
The ELCA, meanwhile, has suffered a dramatic drop in membership, losing more than a million members since its 2009 vote to approve same - sex marriage and ordain pastors in same - sex relationships.
The debate, then, is a lot harder for my side to win; the arguments for sex ordered toward procreation within marriage are much stronger than «man - woman good, man - man / woman - woman bad.»
MP David Burrowes, chair of the Conservative Christian Fellowship, led the parliamentary opposition to the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill, and more than 600,000 people signed a petition led by the Coalition for Marriage against the Bill when it was first proposed in 2012.
According to findings of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, more than half of those who took virginity pledges went on to have sex within three years; 88 percent of them had sex before marriage.
What's more, 60 % of American Catholics support same - sex marriage, a number that continues to be larger than support from all American adults.
The point Grenz was trying to make is that sexuality is much bigger than a desire for sex and therefore single people can live and flourish as sexual beings apart from marriage.
«DOMA instructs all federal officials, and indeed all persons with whom same - sex couples interact, including their own children, that their marriage is less worthy than the marriages of others,» Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the court.
«What young people really need is not more talk about the mechanics of sex and contraception, but encouragement to develop the character qualities of stability, faithfulness and commitment - the qualities they will need to build a strong and lasting marriage based on something that runs deeper than feelings and physical attraction.»
At the recent Ethics and Religious Liberties Commission's national conference on «The Gospel, Homosexuality, and the Future of Marriage,» Albert Mohler correctly asserted that the divorce revolution has done more harm to marriage than same - sex marriage will Marriage,» Albert Mohler correctly asserted that the divorce revolution has done more harm to marriage than same - sex marriage will marriage than same - sex marriage will marriage will ever do.
This marks the first time for any state to legalize same - sex marriage by the expressed will of the people rather than through court rulings or legislation.
«We found actually that among the Tea Party, rather than being libertarians, at least on the issues of abortion and same - sex marriage, they're actually social conservatives,» the survey's lead author, Robert Jones, said Tuesday.
What Grace and I have found in nearly 20 years of marriage and more than 15 years of ministry is that both the church and culture often get sex wrong.
Younger Christians are weary of pitched cultural battles and are longing for the «real Jesus» — a Jesus who talks more about washing feet and feeding the poor than flashpoint issues like same - sex marriage and the sanctity of life.
CNN: Chick - fil - A wades into a fast - food fight over same - sex marriage rights Ordering lunch just got a lot more complicated than deciding how to answer, «Do you want fries with that?»
Rather than fire people for entering same - sex marriages, «we should fire people for being mean.»
By focusing on premarital sex rather than on whether people love one another before marriage or if they have a relationship before marriage, the church makes sex the most important aspect of any relationship.
Mark Driscoll tells CNN that when people (like me) raise concerns about the content of his latest book on sex and marriage, it «reveals more of their own struggles than actual problems with the book.»
Mark also misses the point when he praises Martin Luther and his wife Katherine because «they set in motion a model for Christian faith and maturity through marriage, sex, and children, rather than through singleness and celibacy,» a position that wholly discounts the apostle Paul's high praise for celibacy in 1 and 2 Corinthians.
But what I detect in it is the work of someone who was never all that interested in investigating the arguments on either side of the same - sex marriage debate; whose scant interest in it has now been fully exhausted, both intellectually and morally; and whose present conclusions hover in mid-air without anything to support them other than a wistful regret that he has lost a hoedown partner in a gay man who has come fairly unglued over the issue.
For same - sex marriage advocates, victory means a new moral consensus, which seems more important to them than other people's consciences.
In fact, I've known more than one Christian couple to break up early in their marriage because of major sexual repression issues that stemmed from the guilt associated with sex.
Boldest: Shari Johnson with «My Lesbian Daughter, The Bible, and Sex» «When I hear terms like «God's design» and «Biblical marriage» I have to wonder who decides these things... We keep a death grip on the scriptures that suit us — and the translation of those scriptures becomes more a matter of tradition, opinion and convenience than the Word of God.»
Liberal positions on abortion and same - sex marriage have repelled more voters than they have attracted.
N.T. Wright no more likened same - sex «marriage» advocates to Nazis and Communists than I am likening her to a planetary body in the following analogy: as the moon orbits the earth, so the mind of Ms. Moon orbits an empty space devoid of logic.
Those who argue against same - sex marriage on the basis of its potential to diminish the effectiveness of the institution as a solid foundation for social stability have not thought about the price we have already paid for this personal freedom, or the historical reality that most citizens of Western Nations have already chosen to pay it rather than choose the relative social stability / security of tribalistic collectivism.
To use contraceptives simply as a cover for unrestrained, sensual sex indulgence is no more Christian within than outside the marriage bond.
Even though millennials feel more open to things like pre-marital sex and same - sex marriage than their older siblings and parents and grandparents, they still feel conflicted about abortion.»
ES: It seems — as you mentioned with LGBT issues and same - sex marriage — that culture is moving in a different direction than most people of practicing faith.