Sentences with phrase «part of marriage for»

The state part of marriage for me means that I went to two different courthouses and paid $ 35.

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Kenney was part of a government for years that has a record (for instance, of failing to get pipelines built) and he has made many comments on political issues that are on the record (for instance, a long standing opposition to gay marriage).

The obvious question is: If the definition of marriage is so important to member colleges as a basis for such institutional connections, why was it not part of the articles of association to begin with?

The other is the Windsor case — discussed by Carl Scott earlier — in which the majority opinion not only sets aside part of the Defense of Marriage Act passed with overwhelming support in 1996, but also dismisses and disparages the motives of those who voted for it.

Mr Ngole, who was studying for a Masters in Social Work, had signalled his opposition to gay marriage before posting part of Leviticus 20:13, which says: «If a man lies with a male as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination.»

The Democratic Platform Drafting Committee has officially approved a plank involving the legalization of same - sex marriage for the first time, meaning that the issue will likely become part of the...

For years, until the marriage of both his elder daughter, Elaine, and his son, Anthony, Katsaris continued to urge further action on the part of the Congress.

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.

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?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?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?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?of our home, marriage, church, friends, life, work, laundry (oh, can we talk laundry?!)

To hold that same - sex marriage is part of the fundamental right to marry, or necessary for giving LGBT people the equal protection of the laws, the Court implicitly made a number of other assumptions: that one - flesh union has no distinct value in itself, only the feelings fostered by any kind of consensual sex; that there is nothing special about knowing the love of the two people whose union gave you life, whose bodies gave you yours, so long as you have two sources of care and support; that what children need is parenting in some disembodied sense, and not mothering and fathering.

Effective methods for enriching new marriages are vital parts of such a program of lifelong nurture.

The peculiar circumstances of the English Reformation account in part for the gradual way in which marriage evolved.

Yet Oliva claims that, for Aquinas, pro-creation is not part of the «essence of marriage» (Amours, 20).

Perhaps Bell's recent confidence in expressing support for gay marriage is in part about being loosed from the pressure of holding together a mega-church that might disagree with him.

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 marriagOf 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 marriagof «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 marriagof a civil marriage.

So, many of my arguments on this particular subject have been efforts on my part to get clear about what the expansion of the concept of marriage to include same - sex unions will mean for the social fabric.

(I know you've said I would be welcome, but you've also said that you wouldn't let a couple living together before marriage express a differing view of the issue from your own or so much as ladle soup for the homeless as part of your church.)

Is marriage an end in itself — or is it part of a nurture fitting us more ably for larger purposes?

Here is part of Anderson's response to why marriage matters for public policy:

In the midst of what sometimes seems to be a national obsession with sex, it is often difficult for a couple to discover and cultivate the power of sexual intimacy which is so vital a part of marriage.

But this part of her argument raises another question: If people's love for their children can motivate them to make heroic efforts to be good parents after divorce, couldn't the same amount of effort be expended to make many of the marriages work in the first place?

abortion as a standard part of health - care provision, insisting on programmes of sex education that promoted a range of sexual activities and downgraded marriage... all this and more gave great cause for concern and brought together a group of doctors, teachers, social workers and others anxious to take some action.

We now live in a culture in which about half of all marriages end in divorce; in which nearly half of all children spend part of their childhood in fatherless homes; in which women and men who put their families first are falling behind economically and professionally; in which many of the nation's youngest citizens are starving for parental time and attention, and often for basic material necessities.

BamaDaniel — H o m o s e x u a l i t y is considered a normal part of human s e x u a l i t y by the following professional mental health associations: The American Psychological Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, the American Counseling Association, the Canadian Psychological Association, and the National Association of Social Workers.

For example, though true and reasonable, the superiority of monogamous to polygamous marriage is probably not part of the core.

The daily offices of morning and evening prayer, the litany, the penitential offices, the provisions made for the care of the sick, the marriage of Christian people, the burial of the dead — these are all part of the great traditional experience of public or «common» prayer and praise, and they further establish us in relationship with God in Christ.

A part of the joy of marriage is this opportunity to develop an almost endless variety of transmission lines for the meanings that are important to each partner.

Just as the Anglican Lambeth Conference of 1930 undermined a key part of the conceptual framework that made potentially fruitful heterosexual intercourse the only acceptable kind of sex, so the gradual degradation in the popular understanding of marriage makes it very difficult for many people to conceptualise the Catholic argument against gay marriage.

6 in Basic Types of Pastoral Counseling; «Enriching Marriage and Family Life,» in Growth Counseling: New Tools for Clergy and Laity, Part 1; Growth Counseling for Marriage Enrichment; Growth Counseling for Mid-Years Couples; and «Alcoholics Anonymous — Our Greatest Resource,» chap.

The Holy Father set in motion these past two years of contention and, one hopes, constructive dialogue in the Church because he knows that marriage and the family are in deep trouble throughout the world, just as he knows that marriage, rightly understood, and the family, rightly understood, are the basic building blocks of a humane society: the family is the first school of freedom, because it is there that we first learn that freedom is not mere willfulness; marriage, for its part, is the lifelong school in which we learn the full, challenging meaning of the law of self - giving built into the human heart.

I too am tired of selective appeals to «biblical marriage» that tend to glorify the modern nuclear family as the only ideal and render real people with real lives into a mere political / religious «issue,» and I too am reluctant to support an establishment that sends part of its profits to the Family Research Council, an organization that has fed blatant misinformation about homosexuality to Christians for years.

Additionally and relatedly, the Church's opposition to same - sex marriage, to abortion, and to euthanasia are presented by the liberal commentariat, that has also been the main cheerleader for the «Yes» campaign, as indicating its unfitness to be part of a «new, equal, just and progressive Scotland.»

Even for those women who enthusiastically embrace marriage and motherhood... a substantial part of their lives is without a husband and / or children... Furthermore, the traditional message to women is tenuous at best — all it takes is a single tragic phone call for her to be dropped from that demographic.

The Democratic Platform Drafting Committee has officially approved a plank involving the legalization of same - sex marriage for the first time, meaning that the issue will likely become part of the Democratic Party's official platform.

Mary's surrender at the foot of the cross to a plan that could in no way have been part of her own for herself or for her child figures as the centerpiece of her proposal of a Catholic feminism, which locates the foremost value of women not in forms of service to others (marriage, motherhood) but in service to God, in the decision to surrender to his plan.

Indeed, it has been supposed by some that the teraphim, household gods, (Genesis 35:4; 31:19; 30 - 35; I Samuel 15:23; 19:13, 16; II Kings 23:24) were originally images of ancestors; that they were honored as such and were part of the apparatus of popular religion; (Hosea 3:4) that mortuary customs which the prophetic school later condemned grew up around them; (Cf. Deuteronomy 26:13 - 14) that the right of performing the necessary ceremonies for one's ancestors devolved upon a son and that this fact underlay both the sense of tragedy in being sonless and the practices of levirate marriage and of adoption to avoid such disaster; (Cf. Genesis 15:2 - 3; 30:3 - 8; Deuteronomy 25:5 - 10) and that this set of ideas and customs was an integral part of the whole clan organization of early Israel.

IF we, the normal, naturally developed, un-deviated sector of humanity, decided to for example, give up JOINT TAX RETURN FILINGS as part of our marriages, you would see the pink triangle radicals drop the issue of same - deviant - marriages like a sack of rocks.

Many things in this story seem like coincidences: that I happened to get interested in James Joyce and ask my Catholic friend about chasubles; that I and my boyfriend Steve, now my husband, happened to meet the same Polish Capuchin in little Broken Arrow; that the priest who prepared us for marriage ten years later happened to be a Polish Dominican from the priory in which the Krakow seminar was held; that Prof. Russell Hittinger happened to come to Tulsa, which led me to Poland and to First Things, all of which played a part in bringing my parents into the Church.

This guidance attracted a great deal of criticism as it stated that clergy could not take part in gay marriages and that no official liturgy would be produced for those who wish to bless same - sex unions.

In Part II of the essay, «The Negation of Sexual Difference,» he lifts sentences and paragraphs from a 2010 interview with Béatrice Bourges, president of the Collective for Children and an opponent of same - sex marriage and adoption.

Heterosexual marriage may well be preceded by some degree of experimentation and experience, but for the most part the aim is for boy to marry girl and girl to marry boy.

From the very beginning marriage is part of God's plan and so is entirely natural for us.

The commentaries were pretty much in agreement that in Matthew 19 Jesus was simply reiterating the Genesis account with respect to human sexuality and marriage and added that for this reason divorce was not part of God's plan.

The truly unfortunate part of Snow's essay is when she likens honoring those who have, often heroically, weathered the joys and sorrows of marriage for fifty or more years to honoring a Sun Myung Moon wedding.

Her response is that she has only been a Christian for a few years and that her broken marriages are part of a life which she has left behind.

When the husband and wife practice a profession together, as is the case in some parts of Java, there is the adat that when the marriage is dissolved the jointly acquired goods are distributed between them either equally or in a proportion of two parts for the husband and one for the wife — this provision varies in different parts of the country.

In spite of his letter to Ruhel about it, Luther had kept his counsel for the most part about his proposed marriage, especially from his close friends.

Part of the reason the future looked so bleak was because I couldn't look to many others who were living into compelling stories as celibate men and women, and the future story the church imagined for me hinged on marriage.

Marriage used to be considered the common, and yet individual, worthwhile adventure to which each one is called; and a large part of one's adolescent life was guided by the call to prepare for such a sacred venture.

In the second part of the catechesis the Pope considers the application of his adequate anthropology and deals firstly with celibacy for the kingdom, the sacramentality of marriage and thirdly to love and fruitfulness (a reflection on Humanae Vitae).