Sentences with phrase «separate civil marriage»

Please join us in this pledge to separate civil marriage from Christian marriage by adding your name.

Not exact matches

Civil unions (providing most of the same benefits as marriage with a different name) are better, because a «separate but equal» institution is always constitutional.

They officially separated church and state, forbade public officeholders from attending religious services «in any official capacity,» made marriage a civil act, and legalized divorce.38 (Rousseau saw the importance, in the struggle between church and state, of the authority to marry.

So, the ideal would be a system where the two are separate: You want the civil benefits of marriage?

I of course would still get married and people would still be crying foul about terms since I have the support of my church and would still want the religious institution of marriage, even if the civil were something entirely separate.

Because Church and civil marriage were separate and distinct, the Church was absolutely free to follow its own doctrine with regard to marriage and its disciplines.

Among them were pantheism and the positions that human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided by the light of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states are educated must be by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»

Even if marriage were no different from civil partnership (and it is), separate would not be equal.

Prenuptial agreements, pre-registration agreements and cohabitation agreements set out what should happen - especially about money and property - if your marriage or civil partnership ends, or if you are cohabiting and decide to separate.

In 2014, the Government announced that civil partnerships would remain as a separate status, despite the introduction of same sex marriage that year.

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