Sentences with phrase «of gay couples in»

It is harder for us as gay people, but it's not impossible, evidenced by the existence of gay couples in every geographical region of our country.

Late last month Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness Clifford Stanley issued a memo which stated that chaplains may officiate the marriage and civil union ceremonies of gay couples in states where it's legal, including those taking place on military installations.

By comparison, fishon would not recognize the marriage of a gay couple in Canada, even though it is legal, so I'm not sure it makes sense to require government recognition on the other side of the coin.

Not exact matches

A Christian - owned family bakery in Oregon is facing a fine of $ 135,000 for its refusal to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple and their owners» public discussion of the issue.

• One third of lesbian couples and 20.1 percent of gay male couples without a high school diploma are in poverty, compared to 18.8 percent of different - sex married couples.

Of men in same - sex couples, 10.2 percent, who live in small metropolitan areas, are poor, compared with only 3.3 percent of coupled gay men in large metropolitan areaOf men in same - sex couples, 10.2 percent, who live in small metropolitan areas, are poor, compared with only 3.3 percent of coupled gay men in large metropolitan areaof coupled gay men in large metropolitan areas.

The duo also scored a lot of free publicity in Atlanta by playing up the «local boys make good» angle of their story as well as the idea of a gay couple starting a company together.

It also doesn't hurt that the founders are themselves a gay couple living in Atlanta, which makes theirs the local brew and gives Black Sheep Light Lager an extra dimension of appeal to their first - round target customers.

On half the trials, an image of a gay male couple subsequently appeared on the side of the screen toward which the participants were moving the manikin; on the other trials, a heterosexual couple appeared in this position.

Last year, for example, the Justice Department filed an amicus brief for the Masterpiece Cakeshop Supreme Court case in support of the Christian baker who refused to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple.

So the fact gay couples are denied equal social and economical benefits of marriage, their civil rights are in violation.

Germany looked set on Friday to join more than a dozen other European countries - including the UK and the Republic of Ireland - in allowing gay couples to wed..

The «solidity and space» of gay relationships «are qualities sometimes lacking in more rote, heterosexual couplings.»

We or us would have to pay the health care cost of the gay couples for government jobs and in private sector more company profits go to a non-worker which leave less for the people who actually work for the company.

How gay marriage does fit in to all of this I don't understand.I might understand it if you thought that people are gender based in their capability to love and care.And I would understand if you would think that a married couple should not be of the same sex..

President Barack Obama has come out in personal support of same - sex marriage, has encouraged states to recognize the rights of same - sex couples to marry and even led the movement to abolish Don't Ask, Don't Tell, but he has kept mum on whether or not he believes the Constitution gives gay people the right to marry.

CNN: Conservative leader agrees to visit home of married gay couple for first time A conservative Christian leader who opposes same - sex marriage has agreed to the idea of dining at the home of a married gay couple, after saying he had never done so in an interview with CNN.

Picture the same gay couple walking into the same Christian's flower shop, and requesting carnations in celebration of their union.

No where in your bible does your god condemn the saved loving respectful relationship of a gay couple.

That's why there are 1000's of gay churches and gay clergy because no where in your bible does your god condemn the saved loving respectful relationship of a gay couple.

The «Yes» vote on allowing gay couples to tie the knot won in all six Australian states, despite the most senior figure of the country's Anglican Church warning such a move would have «irreparable consequences» effects.

Nowhere in your bible does your god condemn the saved loving respectful relationship of a gay couple as we know and understand it today.

Nowhere in your bible did your «jesus» condemn the loving long term relationship of a gay couple as we know and understand it today.

Just a brief note to start a conversation about the case of the baker, Jack Phillips, who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple who had been married in Massachusetts and wanted to celebrate with a party in Colorado.

Assertions that heterosexual couples are inherently better parents than same sex couples, or that the children of lesbian or gay parents fare worse than children of heterosexual parents, have no support in the scientific research literature.

And when it comes to «family values,» we're weary of battles to «protect» marriage from gay couples, when so many young evangelicals have grown up in broken homes, witnessing our parents divorce and remarry at rates just as high as in the non-evangelical world (more than 33 % of marriages among born - again Christians end in divorce, the same as in the general population).

Nowhere in your bible does your god condemn the saved loving respectful relationship of a gay couple.

The only one doing that is you Bob, you're the one that is in denial that no where in the bible does your god condemn the saved loving respectful relationship of a gay couple.

New York's recent legalization of gay marriage is being hailed by many as a watershed moment in the history of the fight for equal rights for same sex couples.

I realize you have reading comprehension problems but nowhere in your bible does your god condemn the saved loving long term relationship of a gay couple as we know and understand it today.

Billy Graham comment on the Gay issue in support of Chic - Fil - A president's comment... which I agree with but did not, or has not commented on the Baptist Church denying a black Straight couple a chance to get married in the place they called their church?

(CNN)- A conservative Christian leader who opposes same - sex marriage has agreed to the idea of dining at the home of a married gay couple, after saying he had never done so in an interview with CNN.

If we add to this the sexual activity of young men of the same age, of gay men and lesbian women at a later stage of life, and that of unmarried and divorced heterosexual couples, it becomes clear that the sexual practice of people in our society is quite different from that held to be normative by the traditional teaching of the churches.

Though many married couples who use artificial contraception, along with divorced and remarried Catholics and gays, continue to participate in the life of the church, the great discrepancy between Catholic teaching and Catholic practice has called into question the credibility of the hierarchical teaching office.

However, with a couple of exceptions, no one was interested in discussing loving gays except to tell gay people they're sinners.

Just look at the lines of Xtians, in 100 degree heat, that couldn't wait to buy at Chik Fil A,... in order to hurt gay couples and their families.

From a spiritual perspective, since gay marriage is legal in all 50 states, our communities have plenty of gay couples who, just like the rest of us, need marriage support and parenting help and Christian community.

A ruling in November, 2003 by the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts similarly affirmed «marital» rights for gay and lesbian couples and handed the matter on to the legislature of the Commonwealth.

A couple thoughts on why you don't see increases in gay populations in 2nd and 3rd world countries — In many of them, if you are gay, they kill yoin gay populations in 2nd and 3rd world countries — In many of them, if you are gay, they kill yoin 2nd and 3rd world countries — In many of them, if you are gay, they kill yoIn many of them, if you are gay, they kill you.

If we then give mercy to those that live in total and continuous adultery and who defy 1 of the 10 commandments written by the finger of God, how much more should we give even greater mercy to gay couples who do not break one of the core 10 commandments of God?

But even if the text is referring to a gay couple in bed, and even if the text does teach about the rapture, I pointed out to him that one of the men was taken in the rapture, which means that apparently, God accepted him.

Disputed policies ranging from parental choice in education, to a tax break for married couples, to opposing the legalization of gay rights are all included in the «pro-family» package.

«Glee» may feature a gay couple (Kurt and Blaine), a lesbian couple (Santana and Brittany), and a transgender character (Unique), but it also includes the God Squad, a group of Christians that meet in school and struggle with the demands of their faith.

Things in the area are pretty LBGT - oriented, from affirming church to sex shops, and enough gay couples holding hands that, in this area at least, we don't feel out of place.

(I don't mean to say that straight couples do not achieve this in the same measure at times — not all couple, gay or straight so, though — but that it may be somewhat easier for gay couples in the same way it is easier for two people of the same gender to develop a strong friendship, which is the basis of any good relationship.)

Justice Kennedy concluded his majority opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges with this summary: Gay couples «ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law.

I challenge anyone who claims they support gay marriage to really be involved in it for a couple of weeks.

In my Facebook news feed this morning, I encountered rejoicing over the resignations of county clerks who couldn't in good conscience provide marriage licenses to gay coupleIn my Facebook news feed this morning, I encountered rejoicing over the resignations of county clerks who couldn't in good conscience provide marriage licenses to gay couplein good conscience provide marriage licenses to gay couples.

Also, for those interested, check out these gay - friendly organizations if looking for a church — many of these churches are fully accepting of gay couples even if they are currently not performing gay marriages — I am sure that many of them will join in the ranks of those above once gay marriage has been legalized in more states:

There are, in fact, many Christian churches who fully accept gay couples for who they are, some of them performing marriages of gays.