Sentences with phrase «prohibition against marriage»
The prohibition against marriage between close relations has reasons beyond any «moral» code, and certainly does not come from biblical standards in which such relationships seem to be common, if not celebrated.
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/ Not exact matches
In upholding the prohibition against artificial methods of birth control, the encyclical dashed the hopes of many believers for a change in church teaching — hopes that had been raised when the National Catholic Reporter leaked the news that the lay and clerical members of the hand - picked papal commission studying the matter had voted decisively to support the limited use of artificial contraception within the context of marriage.
The OT prohibitions (that reference other nations / races) are against inter-faith marriages.
If these ministers hope to reaffirm the biblical view and to avoid implicating the Church in a false definition of marriage, then they should make the focus of their pledge something more relevant to the vast majority of the people seeking marriage: the prohibitions against sex before marriage and the prohibition against two Christians divorcing.
On the other hand, there are strict prohibitions against interracial marriage, birth control, discussing or even naming a sexual organ, and seeing one's parents nude.
Any poor and ignorant fool can abide by a prescription as blunt and sharply defined as a prohibition against gay marriage.
Earlier today before I departed for work, I pointed out the Biblical truths regarding the prohibitions against gay marriage in the BIble.
Anyway, it doesn't matter since we are a secular country, with specific prohibitions against mixing church and state (for good reason), and marriage, from a government point of view, is about financial and human rights.
There were multiple partner marriages... and I am not sure it is easy to find the prohibition against this.
For example: The marriage would be valid in canon law if clandestine; thus the canon - law prohibition against divorce would take hold.
One beautiful story, that of Ruth, seems to have been written as a protest against the narrow particularistic view developed in this period, especially in its prohibition of marriages to outsiders.