Sentences with phrase «of civil marriage»

With the exception of parenting, where reform is urgently needed, civil partnership provides almost all of the responsibilities and rights of civil marriage.

They are bringing the day of civil marriage much, much closer.

All those lesbian and gay couples who have publicly celebrated their civil partnerships have brought the day of civil marriages much, much closer.

He reiterated the organisation's call for the introduction of civil marriage «as the next step for lesbian and gay couples».

[1] The restoration of the civil marriage laws may have been one of those gems.

Just add another line to section 4 of the Civil Marriage Act?

It extends most of the rights and obligations of civil marriage to same - sex couples.

The hundreds of lesbian and gay couples who have celebrated their civil partnerships have brought the day of civil marriages much, much closer.

In fact, he maintains that Rawlsian principles, rigorously and consistently applied, forbid the re-definition of civil marriage to include same - sex partnerships.

However, the General Register Office for Scotland issues guidance to district registrars on the form of civil marriage ceremonies, including a form of words, which registrars follow (except that, at their discretion, they can agree a different wording with the couple).»

However, gay people should not be allowed to take advantage of the financial benefits of civil marriage because that would be unBiblical or immoral or something like that.

The point of civil marriage is to legally bind people to the responsibilities of PERSONAL committments that could produce negative social effects such as a spouse and children becoming dependent on the State should those committments not prove to be sustainable.

Remember Justice Kennedy's astonishing words in Lawrence v. Texas about the word liberty in our Constitution, the words which will serve to justify the emerging right to same - sex marriage and even the deconstruction of civil marriage itself as an oppressive constraint on the individual:

«I believe that if a couple love each other and want to commit to a life together, they should have the option of a civil marriage, irrespective of whether they are gay or straight,» she said.

Think of civil marriage as the lowest common denominator and religious marriage as something that people enter into within their particular faith community.

«One of the chief purposes of civil marriage is to connect children with their biological parents, and particularly with their fathers.

Civil partnerships are a separate union which give most (but not all) the rights and responsibilities of civil marriage, but there are recognition issues in other countries and with the use of courtesy titles.

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The registration rules and processes were broadly similar to those for the registration of a civil marriage, annulments of marriage and divorce.

The introduction of civil marriage for same — sex couples would achieve equality of status with opposite sex couples and such recognition that would underpin a wider equality for gay and lesbian people

If marriage truly is a sacrament, as many Christians (including myself) believe, then we need to be much more concerned with developing a robust theology of marriage and making that understood among our congregations than with mobilizing them to deny the right of a civil marriage to same - sexed partners.

The question of gay marriage is one of CIVIL marriage - the legal contract that is marriage.

Of course, we will not gain the rights and benefits (or suffer the losses — I have been part of «religious» weddings conducted by churches for elderly couples who did not want to lose retirement benefits if they had a marriage recognized by the state) of a civil marriage.

With the singular exception of parenting (where reform is urgently needed), civil partnership provides almost all of the responsibilities and rights of civil marriage.