Sentences with phrase «of a good marriage as»

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Ultimately, the Casper pillow is, as Ellen believes, «a really nice marriage of a regular down pillow and a memory foam pillow,» combining the best elements that everyone wants: simultaneously fluffy and firm, comfortable, and a breeze to maintain.

It's also a good idea to run the numbers any time you experience a major life change, such as a marriage, divorce, or the birth of a child.

Cabinet ministers have been at odds over policy, including citizenship laws, the national vote on same - sex marriage and competition reform, as well as being left out of the decision loop on a series of «captain's picks» by the prime minister.

«Some people have talked about marriage as a luxury good,» said Susan Brown, a sociology professor at Bowling Green State University and co-director of the National Center for Family and Marriage Rmarriage as a luxury good,» said Susan Brown, a sociology professor at Bowling Green State University and co-director of the National Center for Family and Marriage RMarriage Research.

Trump's positions on immigration, gay marriage, encryption, and other issues runs afoul of Cook's views, as well.

Trump's positions on immigration, gay marriage, encryption, and other issues run afoul of Cook's views, as well.

And there could be no doubt of his progressive vision on other fronts as well: South Africa's post-apartheid constitution outlawed discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, the first country in Africa to do so, and the fifth in the world to legalize same - sex marriage.

But I am game to hear how you defend such a position of being anti-gay rights in the church (and it seems in society as well — ie: marriage).

As for gay people — the only thing you think they are destroying is the sanctity of marriage — and they don't even need to be involved in that conversation — straight people are doing a good enough job in that department (50 % divorce rate)... marriage is taking a hit in the respectability department... but it's not because of gay people.

Now, the reason of principle that intimate partnerships of three or more persons can not truly be marriages, and should not be legally recognized as marriages or the equivalent, is... Well, remind me again, what is it?

He repeats his description of the ways bad charity (the Great Society) drove out good charity (religiously based groups): It reinterpreted the causes of poverty as exclusively material and environmental; its bureaucracy tried to reach ever - larger numbers of poor people with a decreasingly personal strategy for fighting poverty; it dismissed the role of volunteers in favor of professional social workers; and it removed the incentives for work, saving, and marriage.

Incestuous marriages could well be where the use of consent as virtually the sole basis for sexual morality will founder.

Bishop Mariann Budde decided to allow the rite, since same - sex marriage is legal in the District of Columbia and now in neighboring Maryland as well, Hall said.

«Therefore, the Church, with a renewed sense of responsibility, continues to propose marriage in its essentials - offspring, good of the couple, unity, indissolubility, sacramentality - not as ideal only for a few... but as a reality that, in the grace of Christ, can be experienced by all the baptized faithful.»

According to Muchembled, author of previous histories of the devil and of the orgasm, violence in traditional European society is best understood as the effect of a system of honor among bachelors who required outlets for their pent - up sexual energies while awaiting marriage.

From this heavily fortified definitional base George and Bradley reason that sexual acts of the reproductive type typically further the good of marriage, and persons (whether married or not) who engage in sexual acts of the nonreproductive type «necessarily treat their bodies and those of their sexual partners (if any) as means or instruments in ways that damage their personal (and interpersonal) integrity.»

We applaud your work to uphold marriage as the conjugal union of husband and wife and to rebuild the marriage - based family as the fundamental unit of society and the original and best department of health, education, and welfare.

But in the very next chapter, he praises celibacy as a higher calling — a better way of serving Christ — than marriage.

The best part about living in a secular country is that religious opinions of marriage are irrelevant to the legal definition as «Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.»

Even late in the 20th Century, fundamentalist inst / itutions still opposed miscegenation «Although there is no verse in the Bible that dogmatically says that races should not intermarry, the whole plan of God as He has dealt with the races down through the ages indicates that interracial marriage is not best for man.»

We are reminded not just of our strength but of our weakness as well; not just of glory but also of misery; not just of pleasure but also of finitude; not just of warmth and the coming - to - be of the self in relation with others, but also of limitation and isolation; not just marriage but divorce; not just trust but betrayal and desertion; not just good feeling but pain, suffering, daily reminders of mortality, impermanence, the inevitability and the necessity of death.

The alternate vision that marriage benefits are a right, and that the lifestyle choice under marriage is irrelevant compromises the inst - itution of marriage as I argued above, and puts us in a position where marriage benefits are arbitrary and may as well be abolished.

I don't know what God thinks, but to me if gay marriage is about family life and the possibility of raising children (in other words a desire on the part of gays to be accepted into married life as it exists) then I think it is a good thing for the same reasons that I think hetero families are good and necessary.

Because we've spent a good deal of time here discussing the harmful effects of a shame - based purity culture that treats people who have had sex before marriage as «damaged goods» by comparing them to polluted water or chewed - up gum (see «Do Christians Idolize Virginity?»

The Bible speaks about marriage and intercourse as an image of the church's relation to God — very intimate, deep and joyful, as well as truthful and faithful.

The «rules» for both personal responsibility and sacrifice on behalf of the collective good conflate as marriage and motherhood come into play.

It was Sunday school teachers who said that girls who had sex before marriage were «broken,» that no self - respecting Christian man would ever want them after that, and it was the Christian books and conferences that consistently portrayed good Christian girls as helpless princesses in need of rescue.

Perhaps it was because what we actually had in practice was a marriage of two best friends and companions — but the ideal still lived in my mind as something to strive for, and something we were inexplicably falling short of.

Lawyers should encourage and participate in professional seminars that teach support of marriages as well as those that teach the mechanics of taking them apart.

Before the election, many evangelical leaders predicted that opposition to Obama over his support for abortion rights, his personal endorsement of same - sex marriage and his vision of government as a force for good would trump reservations evangelicals had about Romney's past social liberalism and his Mormon faith.

The initiative has sparked a campus - wide debate about biblical interpretation and the roles of women, as well as a second group called Students for Egalitarianism in Marriage.

Obviously, I'm a big advocate for mutual submission in marriage, as that is what I believe those biblical passages ultimately teach and this is what works best in our marriage, but more important than adopting a single household model — either patriarchal or egalitarian — is adopting the posture of Jesus Christ, who emptied himself of power and took the role of servant.

Of course if anyone looks up, «No man knows my history» by Fawn M. Brodie, or «Under The Banner of Heaven, or Secret Ceremonies: A Mormon Woman's Intimate Diary of Marriage and Beyond,» as well as google different questions about mormon secret names, White Horse Prophesy, Mormons becoming Gods, God was once a man on another planet, mormon bigotry against Blacks, Joseph Smith and his 14 year old wife (WHILE he was still married to his living wife Emma) Helen Mar Kimball... I could go oOf course if anyone looks up, «No man knows my history» by Fawn M. Brodie, or «Under The Banner of Heaven, or Secret Ceremonies: A Mormon Woman's Intimate Diary of Marriage and Beyond,» as well as google different questions about mormon secret names, White Horse Prophesy, Mormons becoming Gods, God was once a man on another planet, mormon bigotry against Blacks, Joseph Smith and his 14 year old wife (WHILE he was still married to his living wife Emma) Helen Mar Kimball... I could go oof Heaven, or Secret Ceremonies: A Mormon Woman's Intimate Diary of Marriage and Beyond,» as well as google different questions about mormon secret names, White Horse Prophesy, Mormons becoming Gods, God was once a man on another planet, mormon bigotry against Blacks, Joseph Smith and his 14 year old wife (WHILE he was still married to his living wife Emma) Helen Mar Kimball... I could go oof Marriage and Beyond,» as well as google different questions about mormon secret names, White Horse Prophesy, Mormons becoming Gods, God was once a man on another planet, mormon bigotry against Blacks, Joseph Smith and his 14 year old wife (WHILE he was still married to his living wife Emma) Helen Mar Kimball... I could go on.

He and Grace, approaching their 20th wedding anniversary, spoke with CT associate editor Katelyn Beaty and Her.meneutics writer Marlena Graves about strong foundations for marriage, as well as the steamier sections of their book, out this week.

The above outlined distinctions are not intended merely as a technical exercise but as an attempt better to understand and foster the proper use of the marriage act.

Where the church has failed is not in its high standard of fidelity, but in its tendency to treat sex as incidental to the fulfilment of marriage, or as at best a minor element in fulfillment.

We will teach as good teachers who resemble Christ, the Teacher.18 Then, we will effectively proclaim the joy of the good news of marriage and the family, asking married people to be open to conversion and to God's grace and mercy.

God's clear right in this, as well as the clear duty of couples, stems from the very institution of marriage.

Archbishop Dolan concluded his statement with a matter - of - fact declaration of what is at stake in the debate over DOMA: «The Administration's currentposition is not only a grave threat to marriage, but to religious liberty and the integrity of our democracy as well.»

As for marriage, study after study has shown over the years that from the point of view of the child it is the best and most stable basis for the family.

761) or, as the anonymous Office of Christian Parents puts it, two who are made one by marriage «may joyfully give due benevolence one to the other; as two musicall instruments rightly fitted, doe make a most pleasant and sweet harmonie in a well tuned consort».7

Hence he can, for example, be of the opinion that the Church could give up the indissolubility of sacramental marriage just as well as the ecclesial form of contracting a marriage, or that she could change the very principles of sexual morality because formerly she took a different authoritative, though not definitive, view of their application, which will perhaps have to be revised.

While the conjugal view centers on comprehensiveness (including a sexual union that is ordered to a common good), the «revisionist view» sees marriage primarily as an emotional bond — as the pinnacle of various kinds of emotional bonds, to be sure, but as essentially an emotional bond all the same.

True, in former times life was often very narrow, as regards one's profession and marriage as well as the education of children and political and cultural activities.

A three - step method for resolving conflicts constructively consists of: (1) telling each other what you appreciate; (2) telling each other what you each need; and (3) negotiating a better plan to meet as many of both sets of needs as possible This adaptation of the Intentional Marriage Method (Before using this communication tool, I suggest that you read H. Clinebell, Growth Counseling for Marriage Enrichment, chap 2) can be used in an individual family communication session, and in family clusters, camps, and counseling.

(For more, see my friend Sarah Bessey's beautiful post, «In which love looks like real marriage...» as well asPreato's analysis of the marriage data.)

More than any show before or since, Friday Night Lights showed the power of a strong marriage in its ability to better and benefit society as a whole.

As the book's conclusion shows, Oliva holds that Aquinas can help us to think of marriage in complete abstraction from pro-creation and the good of children.

The Chief Justice, in dissent, complained about the majority's «entirely gratuitous» aspersions against supporters of traditional marriage: «It is one thing for the majority to conclude that the Constitution protects a right to same - sex marriage; it is something else to portray everyone who does not share the majority's «better informed understanding» as bigoted.»

Milton says that marriage should serve the person; the feminist argues that marriage has ill served women (as well as men) and that marriage must change to better serve the needs of women (as well as men).