Sentences with phrase «over marriage in»

This is not the first time she has ridden rough - shod over marriage in the Times, and I doubt it will be the last.

Not exact matches

As The Washington Post pointed out over the weekend, the other 19 states that passed so - called religious freedom laws did so before gay marriage became legal in most of the country.

Choosing marriage over a college degree or a career, she embarked on a course that would take her to the United Nations and China, the vice president's residence in Washington during Ronald Reagan's two terms as president, and the White House as first lady from 1989 to 1993.

Couples prefer to stay in less - than - satisfying marriages over losing the equity they have built up in their homes.

Bathed in red light, Amy Hixson strutted over where clergymen must once have delivered fiery sermons on the importance of chastity before marriage.

«Rather than seeing marriage as a voluntary partnership that lasts only as long as the passion does, the elders propose a mindset in which it is a profound commitment to be respected, even if things go sour over the short term.

His private life unraveled in late 2009 over allegations about affairs with several women and ultimately led to the end of his marriage.

In a lengthy letter to the judge, Weiner said that he «can't ever imagine not feeling regret» for his abuses and said that his «continued acting out over years crushed the aspirations of my wife and ruined our marriage.»

Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein has shown little interest in defending anything but capitalism over the years, but in 2012 he participated in a video produced by Human Rights Campaign in favour of same - sex marriage.

I was in an unhappy marriage, I had a colicky baby, and I blamed my weight — over 300 pounds — for a lot of my problems.

Oscar Wilde famously remarked that a second marriage is «the triumph of hope over experience,» but both partners in this case seem mature enough to cope.

The 27 - year - old alleged golddigger thought her 90 - year - old husband would leave her a hefty sum when he passed away in 1995 after their marriage of just over a year.

Why are you listening to black clerics over this issue, Blacks are having more kids out of wed lock than whites, they are also like white, living in sin, but the church's say nothing about having babies without a husband or sitting in church and living in sin, talk about glass houses, and besides the marriages are Cival marriage not religious marriage, what a bunch of hipocrites..

For me, this puts any law that privileges marriage over autonomous relationships as such in doubt.

That is why we have been so deeply disappointed over the last nearly two years in the CCCU leadership's unwillingness to deal decisively with whether or not the organization will take a stand for traditional marriage.

Really Daniel, I don't know what kind of marriage you have, but my wife and I do not need one of us to have veto power over the other in order for our family to function.

Today in Public Discourse, Maggie Gallagher, Blankenhorn's friend (and former employee), writes a moving personal piece about the Blankenhorn's decision and the ongoing argument over marriage.

Left - leaning people are becoming one - issue voters over gay marriage in the same way that right - leaning people make abortion a litmus test.

One refrain in debates over marriage policy is that laws designating marriage as exclusively the union of male and female are today's equivalent of bans on interracial marriage.

The next social study should determine if this attitude is found primarily in people who have had sexual intercourse outside of marriage and / or who are practicing contraception» two practices that deny the purpose of sexual intercourse, favoring selfishness over the perfect love that makes sacrifices in marriage a joy.

In a similar case, Kentucky clerk Kim Davis, a born - again Christian, was jailed briefly last year after she refused to allow her office to issue marriage licenses, igniting a national debate over religious freedom and civil rights.

As part of my work over the last four years, I've spent a significant amount of time reading books in the Christian «marriage advice» genre: Real Marriage, His Needs, Her Needs, Love & marriage advice» genre: Real Marriage, His Needs, Her Needs, Love & Marriage, His Needs, Her Needs, Love & Respect.

«I love that I can talk to @ [Twitter name] about anything, but I love it more when we spend hours over coffee talking about God's love for us and how we can grow in displaying that through our marriage and to our son.»

The marriage process, as it is carried on over time, thus results in a dynamic nicely caught in James's metaphor of grease spots.

I have great admiration for the courage and the indefatigable spirit that George and Ryan Anderson have shown in the fight against abortion and in the protracted battle over «same sex marriage.»

Of course there are other reasons for my sporadic blogging this year: a surprise new baby coming which completely disoriented us, a new book to finish writing (and I will share all about that in January), travelling and speaking all over North America, stewarding the message of Jesus Feminist throughout her first year of life, creating the Jesus Feminist collection with Imagine Goods, a trip to Haiti, new opportunities as a writer, three tinies at home with their own lives and drama and growth and change, remodelling parts of our home, marriage, church, friends, life, work, laundry (oh, can we talk laundry?!)

Mixed marriages The cultural challenges within mixed marriages, which have steadily increased in number over the last 40 years, are complex.

So I laughed out loud when I read a line from a piece published in New York Times about a «quieter battle» being waged within churches over gay marriage and gay ordination.

Now that my year of biblical womanhood is over, I thought you might have some questions for us — about the project, about our marriage, about our strange, self - employed life in East Tennessee.

Having been married twelve years now, I am struck (sometimes painfully, sometimes serendipitously) by how marriage, much like conversion, involves an ongoing process of falling in and out of love, losing and then finding oneself, and being, in essence, «converted» and transformed over and over again.

In Britain and across Europe, Mass attendance has slumped over the past decades, along with marriages, baptisms, and ordinations to the priesthood.

Over the years, I've decided that it's less about the rules we keep and the boundaries we maintain and the principles we practice in this marriage.

The fact that England had this Holy House, that it was Mary's land, that it honoured marriage as Pope St Gregory wished, led over centuries to that long continuity of our institutions, in which Christian values became writ large in national life.

If the church is mending marriages, healing financial woes, helping people get over addictions, etc., then it seems to me that the church tends to blend in to society and all the other self - help type stuff.

And just like in marriage, you kinda have to get over yourself in order to survive.

William J. Doherty reports that over 60 percent of marriage and family therapists are «neutral» on the subject of marriage or divorce in providing therapy.

How can our religious communities renew the culture of marriage in a society burnt over by the sexual revolution?

All but one in our group of misfits hadn't lost their marriage over the consequences of the abuse: me.

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.»

Russia's Orthodox Christians and evangelicals share concerns over traditional marriage and family; they were among the harshest critics when the US legalized gay marriage in 2015.

Peers have clashed over a move to allow the solemnisation of marriages in Church of England churches... More

That is why it is not helpful to quibble over questions of whether a given marriage is «real» or «valid» in the first place.

Those of us who believe same - sex marriage to be a moral impossibility now face a very daunting challenge — how to live in a society that is moving so rapidly against our moral worldview, even as the society shared that worldview for over 2,000 years.

(17) Again, a marriage in which there is even a minor degree of intimacy can provide some nurturance and openness by which greater intimacy can grow over the years.

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As we describe in our 2014 report for the National Marriage Project, «Facilitating Forever,» community organizations receiving federal funding approved by both Democrat and Republican administrations have attempted to foster stable marriages and families in at - risk populations for over a decade.

If the fundamental social mechanisms for renewal are diminished — marriage, parenting, productive work, interpersonal trust, and religious or communal involvement — then the social law of entropy takes over, which is what is happening today in poor American communities

It wasn't so long ago that gay marriage was the reductio ab absurdum in policy arguments over sexual orientation.

I also agree in my Irish Catholic upbringing that even women of my Mother's generation would have had to choose between love or her family over a Potestant (mixed marriage).

If one really believes in justification by faith alone, differences over other matters — the real presence in the Eucharist, apostolic ministry, the indissolubility of marriage, the ordination of women, and on and on — make no difference.