Sentences with phrase «marriage was illegal»

And no one welcomed his messages more than Mildred and Richard Loving, whose interracial marriage was illegal in their home state of Virginia.

Who wants to go back to a time when interracial marriage was illegal and separating the offenders was applauded?

Sick, there was a time in this country when interracial marriage was illegal.

Former AG Eliot Spitzer took a similar approach, defending the state in lawsuits challenging its position that gay marriage is illegal, even though he personally felt the opposite.

The borough president said he had no issue flying the colors of a nation where freedom of press and assembly are curtailed, political dissidents are arbitrarily arrested and do not enjoy due process rights, rival political parties are forbidden from campaigning, gay marriage is illegal and where LGBT persons were until relatively recently deported or placed in labor camps.

He adds that same - sex marriage is illegal in most states.

Reasons listed include that same - sex marriage is illegal in most states and eHarmony matching system is based only on information about heterosexual couples.

And sex outside marriage is illegal in the whole of the UAE.

Same - sex marriages are illegal in Japan — over here, however, things are progressing quickly.

Although plural marriages are illegal in the U.S. and many westernized countries, they are legal in over 850 different societies, and consensual non-monogamy (e.g., open marriage à la Newt Gingrich, polyamory, swinging, and other sorts of arrangements) are becoming increasingly popular.

Although plural marriages are illegal in the U.S. and many westernized countries, they are legal in over 850 different societies, 1 and consensual non-monogamy (e.g., open marriage à la Newt Gingrich, polyamory, swinging, and other sorts of arrangements) are becoming increasingly popular.2 TV networks have tapped into this interest: Big Love and Sister Wives, fictional and reality TV series on HBO and TLC, respectively, show the challenges of living in a plural marriage in the United States.

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Now that states (who previously said «No marriage for you, domestic partnership will give you the same rights») are making these partnerships illegal we will be going back to how it was.

A majority of American's agreed at one point that interracial marriage should be illegal, did that make it right?

In Mississippi half of all republicans said interracial marriage should be illegal.

Any number of men and women can live together legally in this country, but only multiple marriage certificates are illegal, and in some states, the marriage ceremony itself is all you need to prosecute a felony.

While hundreds of thousands of people signed petitions urging it to remain illegal, many of them Christians, there was also strong support for gay marriage across the UK.

For example, gay marriage should be legal unless someone can provide proof of why it shouldn't be, but a man marrying a child should be illegal because we have facts backing that up.

A Christian clerk in the US has refused to give a gay couple a marriage licence four times, even though it's illegal for her to do so.

To Jesse: Polygamy should be illegal because there are individuals out there that if they could would have multiple marriages and families around the country without the consent or knowledge of the spouse or the children that they already have.

People today are so preoccupied with making it illegal to even roll your eye's at the thought of gay marriage meanwhile over the last 10 years the powers that be have removed some of the most basic human rights that even Muslim countries have!

@ Jesse: Polygamy should be illegal because there are individuals out there that if they could would have multiple marriages and families around the country without the consent or knowledge of the spouse / children that they already have.

Since only the first marriage is legal, I don't see what they are doing that is illegal.

If it is illegal to drive a car without a driver's license but it is not illegal to live together without a marriage license, why do people want that legal contract, as you call it?

Conservative Christians are right about one thing: public opinion has shifted on same - sex marriage (particularly within the Church), and this means they are more likely to encounter pushback when they insist same - sex marriage ought to be illegal.

Hell, half of all republicans in Mississippi stated that interracial marriage should be illegal.

I don't support Gay marriage or am I against it, its not affecting me or others freedom, so why should you make it illegal?

In polls from last Spring, almost half of republicans in Mississippi said that interracial marriage should be illegal.

In addition, if you go after polygamists for illegal cohabitation, can you limit such a policy to polygamists, or do you pursue every couple in this state that is living together without benefit of a licensed marriage?

And half of republicans think interracial marriage should be illegal.

According to a new poll, 46 % of likely Republican voters in the state of Mississippi think that interracial marriage should be illegal.

Gay marriage doesn't take away the rights of others, gay marriage provides equality to those who seek it, and loving somebody shouldn't be illegal regardless of gender.

Joanna Bogle, a Catholic journalist, brings out the contribution that is being made by the Catholic unpreparedness to teach effectively on marriage and related issues towards making it illegal to...

In particular, one could ask the Prime Minister to put in writing his personal guarantee that no Church or individual will be forced to perform «gay marriages»; and that it will not be illegal for Christians to teach the traditional and biblical view that homosexual acts are sinful; and that Christians who refuse to perform «gay «marriages will still be able to be registrars.

Joanna Bogle, a Catholic journalist, brings out the contribution that is being made by the Catholic unpreparedness to teach effectively on marriage and related issues towards making it illegal to do so.

And no, I don't want gay marriage to be accepted «the same as traditional marriage» — traditional marriage, in which the woman is no longer a legal person once married, is now illegal.

An addition to the Bill in December 2012 meant that it would be illegal for the Church of England and Church of Wales to conduct same - sex marriages.

From rising filmmaker Jeff Nichols, Loving tells the moving real - life story of Mildred and Richard Loving, the interracial couple who's romance led to the landmark Supreme Court decision which made it illegal to prevent marriages on the basis on race.

For crying out loud the economy is in the gatter, people are starving and loosing their houses and the main concern of the conservative parties right now are banning contraceptive, making abortion illegal and ban gay marriages?

Can you explain why, despite gay marriage being legal and Canada being a secular society, why incest and pedophilia are illegal and are in no way, shape or form on their way to being legal?

But just to clarify, is your argument that pedophilia and incest have remained illegal in Canada after gay marriage passed because Canada was founded differently than the US?

St. Valentine was beheaded for performing illegal marriages.

When Tennessee added an amendment to the state constitution banning same - sex marriage (even though it was already illegal in the state), members of my church at the time put signs in the yard declaring support for the initiative.

The only time religion and what others believe bothers me is when they insist that laws reflect those beliefs, like making gay marriage illegal.

It seems like his people are more concerned with other things, like making gay marriage illegal, then they are with helping the poor.

Someone actually argued before the SCOTUS that 01) Gay marriage will encourage straight people to be gay 02) gay parents will raise gay children, 03) women are still property, blacks still can't marry whites, and divorce is still illegal.

And then a pizza I had no idea that interracial marriages were once illegal in that many states (and at all).

In Loving v. Virginia, Mildred Jeter (who was black) married Richard Loving (who was white) in Washington D.C., where their marriage was not illegal.

Perhaps Kirsten is hesitant to defend her flip - flops on gun control, illegal immigration and gay marriage.

An illegal immigrant from Guatemala was charged with second - degree murder in the bludgeoning of a Westchester socialite whose playboy son helped break up Gov. Cuomo's marriage to Kerry Kennedy.

A pride flag hangs at City Hall after the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage in June 2015, still conversion therapy is not illegal in New York.