Sentences with phrase «principle of equal marriage»

He stresses that he firmly believes in the principle of equal marriage.

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And yet, if same - sex marriage is to be truly equal to natural marriage in the eyes of society and the law, then all the rights and privileges of marriage — including those involving the procreation and rearing of children — must in principle belong to both kinds of marriage, irrespective of the motives impelling a couple toward marriage or whether, once married, they exercise these rights and privileges.

«The federal Defense of Marriage Act clearly violates the principle of equal justice under law as enshrined in the U.S. Constitution and improperly intrudes on the traditional role of states in defining marriage,» Schneiderman said in a stMarriage Act clearly violates the principle of equal justice under law as enshrined in the U.S. Constitution and improperly intrudes on the traditional role of states in defining marriage,» Schneiderman said in a stmarriage,» Schneiderman said in a statement.

The further possible exception to equal sharing alluded to in para 86 was «where both parties had worked throughout the marriage, had pooled some of the assets built up by their efforts but had chosen to keep other such assets under their separate control, the latter, although unequal in amount, were unilateral assets which might not be subject to the sharing principle... we would prefer, so far as it is proper for us to do so, to keep the room for application of the concept closely confined».