Sentences with phrase «same issue every couple»

Why come back to the same issue every couple of years?

Not exact matches

As the Supreme Court gets ready in June to rule on the issue for the second time in two years, conservative states have rushed to enact so - called Religious Freedom Reformation Act (RFRA) laws that would allow businesses to object on religious grounds to serving LGBT people and same - sex couples.

Same sex marriage is now legal in 36 states, and the Supreme Court will issue a final ruling on whether such couples have a federal right to marry in June.

Looking quite like the original issued in 2000, the new 3310 has the same old - fashioned keypad and comes in a couple of bright plastic - y colors.

On the yield measures, we've had some relief for Treasury yields in the past couple of weeks, but we've also seen a significant spike in the yield on many industrial bonds over that same period, including issues in the Dow 20 Bond Average.

In a recent issue of TNR, he returns to his subject, once again lamenting the alleged inconsistency of the Catholic Church in countenancing the marriage of infertile couples while rejecting same - sex marriage.

While most people are firmly in one camp or the other, roughly 3 to 4 out of 10 Americans either sympathized with both sides — or with neither — on issues of whether employers should be required to provide birth control (43 %), transgender people should be able to use the bathroom of their choice (37 %), or businesses should be required to serve same - sex couples (33 %).

County clerks who cite their Christian values when refusing to issue marriage licenses to same - sex couples don't also refuse licenses to cohabitating couples, or divorcees, or interfaith couples (also frowned upon in conservative Christian circles), nor do the bakers and restaurant owners who refuse to serve LGBT people refuse to serve other perceived «sinners.»

Others, regarding this issue as one of justice, would offer an expanded understanding of marriage that opens it civilly and sacramentally to same - sex couples.

Many other modern interpreters of marriage have made the same mistake, and so have many people in American churches, who are tempted to join with Coontz and insist that couples get married for reasons of love alone, Economic, kinship and network issues and even the desire to have children are sometimes seen as contaminations of the purity of marital love.

According to the Republican signatories of a recent amicus brief, the fourteenth amendment requires that marriage licenses be issued to same - sex couples.

The United Reformed Church has not yet made a decision about marriages of same - sex couples — the issue will be debated at the denomination's General Assembly this July.

Although the middle - years couple has been married longer than those described earlier, and therefore are more «set in their ways,» the issues aroused and the approaches called for are much the same.

Speaking of his views on the issue as the result of «an evolution,» Obama relayed that he had decided that it was «important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same - sex couples should be able to get married.»

• In Texas, clerks who have religious objections can refuse to issues marriage licenses to same - sex couples, with support from that state's attorney general.

A federal appeals court on May 31st ruled that the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional because it denies equal rights for legally married same - sex couples, making it likely that the Supreme Court will consider the politically divisive issue for the first time in its next term.

Synod last year ruled that the issue of same - sex couples being unable to be married in church should be discussed across its seven dioceses.

Americans are evenly split on the issue: about half (49 %) say wedding vendors should be required to serve same - sex couples, while nearly as many (48 %) say they should be able to refuse on religious grounds, according to the Pew Research Center.

At the same time I was following a couple of twitter battles in the evangelical world over contemporary political and social issues.

Recent developments are not particularly encouraging, as claims to individual autonomy are generally thought to trump the conscientious objections of Christians, Jews, and others who might recoil at, say, funding abortions or issuing marriage licenses to same - sex couples.

And they may find themselves struggling with the same issues hetero couples struggle with.

In addition, couples who divorce and later remarry frequently find that the very same issues pop up with the next relationship.

A significant part of Dorothy's research has focused on the psychological fertility issues of non-traditional families, including publications on psychological considerations in older prospective parents (i.e., women and men over 35) and in same - sex couples.

Yesterday, antigay chief justice of Alabama, Roy Moore, sent out an order for the state's probate judges to stop issuing marriage licenses for same - sex couples.

It might not be much of a condolence to North Carolina families who could effectively see their legal status disappear thanks to passage of Amendment One, but the issue of family equality for same - sex couples just got a very important voice of support.

Davis insists that issuing marriage licenses to same - sex couples is the same thing as personally approving of them.

I had done made up my mind we were going to issue the licenses and I thought that was it,» said Judge Leon Archer, a probate judge in a rural county that has stopped issuing the same - sex licenses but is still issuing licenses to heterosexual couples.

- Chronic conflict - Emotional affairs and infidelity - Communication issues - Sexual issues (sexless marriage, loss of intimacy, dissatisfaction)- Transition to parenthood - Relationship issues in same - sex couples - Substance abuse issues

Like you, my «issues» remain the same, during long periods in a couple or long periods as a single person.

Although Wise lost her battle, two other couples from unincorporated Glen Ellyn who own separate home day - care facilities have a case pending in court against the county over the same issue.

CapTon's Kaitlyn Ross confirms the Bronx Democrat was asked — and confirmed — that his issue is indeed the provision that would allow gay couples married outside the state to file their state income tax returns as a married couple, regardless of whether or not they can file their federal returns in the same manner.

Although civil marriage is not yet available for same sex couples in the UK, the Government announced in 2011 that it would review the issue as part of its commitment to advancing LGBT equality.

The British Humanist Association has long campaigned for legal humanist marriages, and a hard - won amendment during the passage of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 compelled the Government to hold a consultation on the issue and awarded them Order - making powers to introduce it.

Former President Clinton, who said back in 2009 that he had «changed his mind» about his opposition to gay marriage, has issued a statement in support of the effort to pass a bill that would let same - sex couples legally wed in New York.

* finally, when the Tories introduce their # 150 marriage tax break through transferable allowances (which 1 in 3 married couples will get, though double - earner households won't), that will also be lost by anybody who gets it at the same point, exacerbating further this marginal rate issue at that point.

The other day we told you how a few county clerks in Kentucky stopped issuing marriage licenses to all couples to avoid issuing them to same - sex couples.

Among the steps proposed by such advocacy groups as OutServe - Servicemembers Legal Defense Network and the American Military Partner Association are issuing military IDs to same - sex spouses, ensuring spouses have full access to on - base social programs, and letting same - sex couples qualify for military housing.

A Pennsylvania county clerk decides to defy state law and issue marriage licenses to same - sex couples

One of the first movement issues in which Robinson will now play a key role is the way the military handles benefits for same - sex couples in the military.

Update: CNN reports that a Pennsylvania judge ruled Thursday that Hanes must «cease and desist from issuing marriage licenses to same - sex applicants [and] from accepting the marriage certificates of same - sex couples.»

A short 18 months before he signed legislation giving same - sex couples the right to marry, the issue had gone down to a staggering 38 - 24 defeat in the State Senate.

Gov. Steve Beshear, Attorney General Jack Conway and Bill May, executive director of the Kentucky County Clerks Association, have all advised county clerks to issue licenses to same - sex couples.

Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis, 50, who has said her beliefs as an Apostolic Christian prevent her from issuing marriage licenses to same - sex couples, said they had changed parties last week.

Still, same - sex marriage and LGBT issues in general have not received much oxygen this election cycle, despite President Obama say this summer he now favored marriage rights for gay couples and a record number of gay and lesbian candidates running for public office.

But he has gay friends — memorably living with a gay couple during his divorce from his second wife, Donna Hanover — and also once said the GOP should «move on» from the divisive issue of same - sex marriage and get out of people's bedrooms.

Likewise, if you're in a state which requires a three - day waiting period between applying for a marriage license and getting one, or between getting one and when you're actually allowed to get married, you're still able to go to another state which is willing to issue same - day marriage licenses to out - of - state couples, get married, and return to your home state before you would have been able to get married if you had stayed.

Washington (CNN)-- The Democratic mayor of Santa Fe, New Mexico, announced on Tuesday he is now urging county clerks in the city to begin issuing marriage licenses to same - sex couples.

Kim Davis, the Rowan County Clerk who became the poster child for the religious right when she refused to issue marriage licenses to same - sex couples following the 2015 SCOTUS ruling, will seek re-election in 2018.

«Thanks to today's ruling, same - sex couples across the country will no longer be treated as second - class citizens when it comes to issues regarding the family.

Clerks in Lexington and Louisville began issuing marriage licenses to same - sex couples within hours of the court decision Friday.