Sentences with phrase «other than marriage»

You have, by any other voluntary act other than marriage or registration of civil partnership, acquired citizenship of another country.

Under Ohio law, the court can award a share of one spouse's separate property to the other spouse if he squandered or wasted marital assets or spent them on something other than the marriage.

Survey respondents were asked which of the following statements came closer to their own views: Society is better off if people make marriage and having children a priority, or society is just as well off if people have priorities other than marriage and children.

Associate members are individuals who submit proof of an official designation indicating they have met all educational requirements for licensure or certification in a mental health profession other than marriage and family therapy and are completing the post graduate clinical hours to practice independently in a mental health field other than MFT.

There are couples that wish to have legally recognized relationships other than a marriage.

Life Insuarance is used in situations other than marriage.

About 21 of Americans have been in a non-monogamous relationship, 50 say society is just as well off if people have priorities other than marriage and children, and 12 are only looking for casual hookups.

OkCupid — Success = something other than marriage (only 23 percent of success stories on this site are about marriage)

These accounts have been frozen for no reason other than her marriage to Chief Fani - Kayode.

«Problem is they haven't built a prison that could hold me yet, other than marriage.»

«What annoys me is that no one, not even queers, can imagine anything other than marriage as a model for organizing our desires.

It is only with an understanding of vocation and the question of sexual vocation other than marriage and celibacy that a responsible Christian sexual ethic can be elaborated which is neither reactionary nor soft - headed, neither simply orthodox nor simply enlightened, but a genuine application of Christian moral insight to the contemporary setting.

Or the commitment to a new relationship of intimacy other than marriage?

3) There's increasing willingness to consider options other than marriage and to be in much less hurry to marry.

Not exact matches

In other related news, the game is more than just building stages, as it can also be used to make a marriage proposal.

The fact that in western Europe between a tenth and a fifth of each generation never married, combined with a relatively late average age at marriage for women, implied that fertility levels were normally lower than in other societies.

Most of us go into marriage, or cohabitation, without much of a strategy other than an «I love you and I want to make it work» so it is not long before the issue of money rears its ugly head.

Fertility levels were influenced by many factors other than age at marriage and celibacy levels.

Why is that that people who are against gay marriage can't think of anything other than butt se.x when discussing the topic?

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.

Culturally, young adults have increasingly come to see marriage as a «capstone» rather than a «cornerstone» — that is, something they do after they have all their other ducks in a row, rather than a foundation for launching into adulthood and parenthood.

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 defend traditional marriage [he wrote] is not to condemn, demean, or humiliate those who would prefer other arrangements, any more than to defend the Constitution of the United States is to condemn, demean, or humiliate other constitutions.

This arises from a warped and stunted notion of sexual ethics which offers nothing to say about the subject other than that it's acceptable within marriage and unacceptably wicked in any other context.

@ 0G - No gods, ghosts, goblins or ghouls — agreed the Bible says that — but strangely - every culture on this planet in no way recognizes that marriage is anything other than a man and a woman.

Now as the soul is more excellent than the body, and admits of far greater joy, so this spiritual union brings in more astonishing delights and ravishments than any other marriage relationship is capable of.

Marriage also recognises that our relationships with each other are more than physical: they should involve knowledge and love - seeing and accepting the truth and good that each human being is.

The disciples interrupt the discussion by saying that if there is no way to dissolve an unhappy marriage other than by infidelity, it would seem best never to get married.

Churches which have tried a variety of marriage enrichment retreats report that participation by couples in the first ten years is generally more enthusiastic than that of couples in any other marriage stage.

A man in his middle years described his hopes for a weekend couples retreat: «I hope we can achieve that good, close feeling and learn to help others do better than we've done — we've wasted so much time in our marriage!»

Myth and fact are inextricably entangled, and a person is not necessarily a more authentic Christian by being more firmly grasped by the one or the other: «For this is the marriage of heaven and earth: Perfect Myth and Perfect Fact: claiming not only our love and our obedience, but also our wonder and delight, addressed to the savage, the child, and the poet in each one of us no less than to the moralist, the scholar, and the philosopher.»

Some — like our own - discriminate against marriage and family formation more than others.

Both psychotherapy and middle - class marriage isolate women from each other; both emphasize individual rather than collective solutions to women's unhappiness; both are based on a woman's helplessness and dependence on a stronger male authority figure....

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)

You do not carry the responsibility for your wife, nor for other men, nor by any comparative standard with other men, but only as an individual, before God, where it is not asked whether your marriage was in accordance with others, with the common practice, or better than others, but where you as an individual will be asked only whether it was in accordance with your responsibility as an individual.

Though younger students are much less likely to be married than older ones — and although marriage in this and other Auburn studies is closely and positively associated with students» economic comfort levels — younger students are much more likely to be full - time students.

Marriage is older than christianity, therefore any comparison to other christian rites is moot.

Radical women and flamboyant homosexuals are easy (and ancient) targets, but neither undermines heterosexual marriage more than an array of other factors, such as financial instability, emotional dysfunction, unfair distribution of domestic labor, widespread divorce, interreligious differences and intercultural conflict.

When couples show up to marriage counseling with intimacy problems, you can almost always be sure than one or the other has departed from the proper perspective and begun using their spouse or using seex as a bargaining chip for power or control in the relationship.

Christians don't hate you any more than they hate someone who sleeps with others outside marriage, gets a divorce, drinks to excess, or smokes and harms their body.

Because frankly, those are the qualities that you will desperately need in marriage more than any other trait.

As far as attending the marriage ceremony of gay people i have two points of view the first is that that is there choice to live how they want to but to me that is clearly not Gods best and sin is sin and needs to be repented of but that is my standard not theres.As far as divorced people remarrying why shouldnt they if they have repented of there past God forgives them not condemns them.As he said to the women caught in adultery do they condemn you and she answers no and he says and neither do i.Go and sin no more.This was not just for the women causght in adultery this lesson was for every one of us he was addressing our sin publically for all have sinned and fall short of the Glory of God that being his son Jesus Christ he is telling us that we must make the same decision to go and sin no more to repent in our hearts and the only way to do that is to give our hearts and lives totally to Jesus Christ other wise we are no better than the hypocrites in JESUS day.brentnz

To Ken Margo: I am totally agree with you about this evil thing going around the earth... this evil minded people is there everywhere regardless of faith... that was not what i was trying to say... my point was to be able to recognize the One True God who is Unseen and who has no partners as He is not in need of any partners but we the creation is in need of Him... thats all... I wish I could do something to stop all these taking place around the earth... I think we human fear the fed laws more than we fear the laws of our Creator, for example not to associate any partner with Him, taking the life of others, drug dealing, human trafficking, believing in hereafter and so on... I remember a story that I was talking with one of my friends... I was telling him look we all obey the law of the land so much like for example when we drive and no one moves even an inch when there is a school bus stop to pick / drop kids as it is a fed laws but when it comes to the laws of our Creator, we don't care... like having physical relationship outside of marriage and many more... then he said something nice... he said that its because we see the consequence of breaking the law of the land but we do not see the punishment of hereafter even though it is mentioned very details in Quran, it even gives pictures of hereafter....

Stories of long - term spiritual growth and fulfillment in church are, in many ways, similar to stories of long - term growth and fulfillment in marriage: what matters more than initial compatibility is long - term commitment to growing together, working through conflict, and learning as broken people to love other broken people well.

«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.

Some have «open marriages,» while others truly have no better option, given their circumstances, than to divorce.

tradition hard to break.the tradition of marriage is older and more meaningful than any other we know it crosses all religions and non religions, and races and cultures.it won't change easy.calling it something else for some people may make it easier to change.but what about those people who want that time tested tradition for themselves for their own self worth.it is a civil right give it to them today.this issues has divided my community as much as any other, but as we have fought to gain right after right, we have lost sight that all deserve the right of freedom of happiness.No gayness here, just can't fight the battle to keep someone down after being held down

Marriage rates are declining, in some demographics more than others.

In reality, therefore, according to the powers - that - be in the Anglican Church, marriage is no more «important» than any other lifestyle choice.

Yet I disagree that the state should refuse to tolerate intimacy expressed through any medium other than monogamous, heterosexual marriage.