Sentences with phrase «recognized civil marriages»

Rather, when confronted by the pastoral reality of people who wanted to remarry after widowhood, or after divorce, the Church, recognized civil marriages and focused entirely on the reintegration of the remarried into the Church through prayer and fasting.

You said, «Not a Gotcha question, Lin would you require religious insti «tutions to recognize a civil marriage.

Not exact matches

Individuals in other arrangements, such as civil unions, registered domestic partnerships, or other similar arrangements, that aren't recognized as a valid marriage under relevant state law won't be treated as married or as spouses as defined in this policy for federal tax purposes.

However, individuals in other arrangements, such as civil unions, registered domestic partnerships, or other similar arrangements, that are not recognized as marriage under the relevant state law, will not be treated as married or as spouses as defined in this policy for federal tax purposes.

Austin, while the list of recognized civil rights varies, activities and actions, including religious practice and organization of the family unit (number of children, marriage) have been a core element since at least the original UN declarations.

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 marriage.

... Anyone who thinks marriage is something sacred needs to recognize that from the church's perspective all marriages granted by the state for tax and inheritance purposes are just civil unions by another name.

While I personally think gays should have civil rights and be lawfully recognized as domestic partners, I wonder what impact this will have on traditional marriage.

Further, reducing all marriages to civil unions by recognizing marriages as business contracts removes the argument from debate by recognizing equality for all regardless of their beliefs.

''» will, inevitably, be used to punish religious bodies that do not recognize any such thing as same - sex «marriage»: by taking away their tax - exempt status, denying their ministers the legal capacity to act as witnesses of marriage under civil law, or both.

This morning, the US Supreme Court is hearing arguments on whether our Constitution requires states to recognize same - sex civil marriages.

Soon afterwards, it was declared that only civil marriages would be legally recognized.

The clandestinely married did have the same civil - law rights as the licitly married — whatever that happened to entail in a given legal regime — but that was because the state recognized the capacity of the Church to arbitrate questions of contracting marriage.

Writing for the New York Review of Books, the indefatigable Garry Wills asks, «Why do some people who would recognize gay civil unions oppose gay marriage?

The Church does not recognize civil divorce, and therefore regards the first marriage as ongoing.

Since our state doesn't recognize a same - sex couple with marriage, civil unions or a domestic partnership, we knew we would face extra hurdles to becoming parents.

The New Jersey Supreme Court's decision to recognize same - sex couples will compel the State Legislature to either allow gay marriage or create civil unions.

The D.C. Council overwhelmingly approved a bill yesterday to recognize same - sex marriages performed elsewhere, in a vote that followed a sharp exchange between an openly gay member and a civil rights champion and set off shouts of reproach from local ministers.

There's no civil marriage process although marriages made outside Israel are recognized without any rules.

«One case, Godfrey v. Spano, stems from the Westchester County executive's 2006 decision to begin officially honoring out - of - state marriage licenses for gay couples the same way it did for heterosexual couples.The other case, Lewis v. New York State Department of Civil Service, was filed after the department agreed in 2007 to begin recognizing out - of - state, same - sex marriages for the purpose of extending health insurance to spouses of public employees.»

Civil marriage does not exist in Israel, although it is legally recognized if it is performed abroad.

If the state where the couple lived doesn't recognize same - sex marriages, a surviving partner may still qualify as a widow or widower for Social Security benefits if the intestacy laws of that state allow the surviving partner of a non-marital legal relationship (such as a civil union or domestic partnership) to inherit as a spouse.

Local courts won't recognize my religion in order to process marriage documents for example as I have to undergo religious rituals, there's no civil marriage for citizens.

Some states do, in fact, recognize both civil unions and same sex marriages but unfortunately, the majority of states and the federal government don't.

CONAF recognizes that difficulty obtaining vital documents such as birth and marriage certificates is a significant obstacle to accessing public services and claiming basic rights — especially for women and children in rural communities — and will carry out a series of capacity building and educational activities over the course of the next year to improve access to civil registry.

«The formal effect of the judicial decisions (and subsequent legislation) establishing same - sex civil marriage in Canada was simply that persons of the same - sex could now have the government recognize their relationships as marriages.

In the particular circumstances of this civil partnership, where the parties were denied the choice to marry in the place where the union was celebrated I would perpetuate impermissible discrimination if I failed to recognize their civil partnership as a marriage.

Failing to recognize this UK civil partnership as a marriage would perpetuate impermissible discrimination, primarily because in the UK these parties could not marry because of their sexual orientation, but had to enter into a civil partnership instead.

On this 4th of July week, I am reminded of other groundbreaking SCOTUS decisions deemed controversial in their time, which also redefined and recognized equality and civil rights, such as Loving v. Virginia, which struck down individual state's bans on interracial marriage.