Sentences with phrase «sex issues in your marriage»

If there are sex issues in your marriage and you both aren't sure what to do, one of the best things you can do is go to a sex or marriage therapist.

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Following milestone achievements in gay rights including same - sex marriage becoming legal nationwide in 2015, transgender rights have become an increasingly contentious issue in the United States.

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.

Hayward, also known for his cartoons in support of same sex marriage and LGBT issues, has been frequently asked if he was gay.

I know in the past there have been issues with contraception and sex for procreation only, but I personally don't have problems with contraception and non-procreative sex in a marriage relationship.

A Christian county clerk in Kentucky who has repeatedly defied court orders by refusing to issue marriage licenses for same sex partners has been released from...

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 marriagIn 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 marriagin countenancing the marriage of infertile couples while rejecting same - sex marriage.

In a Public Religion Research Institute poll released last week, 18 % of black Americans surveyed said they see same - sex marriage a «critical issue,» putting it behind the economy, education, deficit, a growing wealth gap and immigration.

Tea Party supporters are «much more likely than registered voters as a whole to say that their religion is the most important factor in determining their opinions on... social issues» like abortion and same - sex marriage, according to the Pew analysis.

However, the issue of sexuality, made concrete particularly in the question of same - sex marriage, is still dangerously confused.

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.»

I also was aware of the hypocrisy of how «gay» sin, or «non-virgin» sin, or other «moral» issues, were regarded far far differently than sins of omission, white lies, tax fudging, white collar crime in general (who is more sinful, the girl that has sex before marriage, or the CEO that knows his company is lax on pollution standards that affect the health of hundreds / thousands of people and animals that live nearby)

Similarly, while there may be some value in the refusal to take a moral stance on homosexuality — in order to focus squarely on the nature of marriage rather than on same - sex relationships — I am less than persuaded by the authors» moral judgment that people's sexual relationships are a private issue.

The fold - out brochure, which landed in Iowa mailboxes last week and was provided to CNN by a Des Moines - area voter, draws a series of contrasts between Obama and Mitt Romney on the issues of abortion, same - sex marriage and insurance coverage for contraception.

Because the young are more liberal on social issues» at least at this point in their lives» traditionalists are being counseled by secularists to either remain silent about abortion and same - sex marriage, or even change their beliefs.

Their discomfort with cultural issues is reflected in their protests that matters such as partial - birth abortion, school prayer, or same - sex marriage are not proper items for political debate; they are rather «wedge issues» that conservatives illegitimately bring into the public arena in order to divide the nation (read: in order to cost Democrats votes).

Where, at the beginning of the novel, marriage has already occurred, love may well be sought outside marriage; the rendering of a love that both issues in marriage and develops and matures within it is much less usual... The more recent convention that «love» is the precondition not of marriage but of» sex» is a natural development of tradition rather than a reaction against it.»

Not to mention, «Reality», that sex IS N'T a requirement for marriage, so it doesn't matter what kind any two consenting adults engage in; it simply isn't an issue if it's mutual masturation or not.

After the fallout of World Vision's 2014 decision to allow, and then not allow, employees in same - sex marriages, Hatmaker had called for a more gracious conversation on the issue, and later clarified her position:

Washington (CNN)-- As the Supreme Court considers two major same - sex marriage cases that could change marriage in the United States, religious leaders on both sides of the debate believe they are on God's side of the contentious issue.

«On the two issues that have prompted some pulpit thundering, same - sex marriage and abortion, Catholics are right in line, or even a little ahead, of their non-Catholic neighbors,» said Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.

Ashimolowo says one of the main reasons for his disappointment with white church leaders was his perceived silence from them on the issue of same sex marriage when the law was changed in the UK.

Ironically, the 2016 — 2017 Supreme Court roundup also appearing in the October issue of First Things («A Less Corrupt Term») quotes Justice Samuel Alito saying of the Court's majority opinion on same - sex marriage that it «evidences... the deep and perhaps irremediable corruption of our legal culture's conception of constitutional interpretation.»

Following President Obama's affirmation of same - sex marriage in May of last year, LifeWay Research released data showing the public was split on the issue of whether homosexuality was a sin.

One might also note Louise that Abraham was the most perfect example that the law regarding issues of sex and marriage could not in fact be indicative of Godly morality for all time.

We made some suggestions towards a synthesis of this vision with some of John Paul II's insights in our March 2009 editorial, «The Assault upon the Sexes: Fostering the Papal Defence», and would also refer to Luke Gormally's pieces in our March 2006 issue, «Marriage and the Prophylactic use of condoms» and in our March 2004 issue, «Marriage, the true environment for sexual love».

The landscape is changing: Two months ago, experts proclaimed the legalization of gay marriage «a blue state thing,» but the ruling on Utah's same - sex marriage law and similar appeals in Oklahoma and Texas are pushing the issue to red states.

• 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.

The journal's editor, who is likewise friendly to the cause of same - sex marriage, stands by its publication, and in a subsequent issue publishes a follow - up article by its author, who cogently defends and restates his findings.

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.

It seems that when teams of doorstep canvassers are sent out to chat with thousands of residents about same - sex marriage, swift and durable change occurs in the opinions on that issue held by subjects who chatted with a gay canvasser whose script told him to say that he'd really like to get married but the law won't allow it.

Last year the Vatican sent a survey on issues from same - sex marriage to surrogacy to all priests before a meeting called by Pope Francis in October to discuss Church policy on family issues.

Here are some details about that November 2004 ballot proposal: 1) there was already in place a Utah law strictly banning same - sex marriage, which I fully supported; 2) all three candidates for the office of attorney general of Utah (the chief law - enforcement officer in the state) opposed the amendment, including the LDS (Mormon) Republican incumbent, Mark Shurtleff, mostly because they considered it a poorly drafted amendment; 3) I refused to endorse the amendment, but I did not urge people to vote «no»; 4) the leadership of the LDS Church, which has a record for being as strongly opposed to same - sex marriage as the Catholic Church, did not issue a statement urging its members to vote one way or the other; 5) inasmuch as two thirds of Utahans belong to the LDS Church, this means that the leadership of at least 80 percent of Utah churchgoers did not urge a «yes» vote on the amendment.

Same - sex marriage forces the issue, which is why it has been and will continue to be a point of conflict in our culture wars.

But what I detect in it is the work of someone who was never all that interested in investigating the arguments on either side of the same - sex marriage debate; whose scant interest in it has now been fully exhausted, both intellectually and morally; and whose present conclusions hover in mid-air without anything to support them other than a wistful regret that he has lost a hoedown partner in a gay man who has come fairly unglued over the issue.

In fact, I've known more than one Christian couple to break up early in their marriage because of major sexual repression issues that stemmed from the guilt associated with seIn fact, I've known more than one Christian couple to break up early in their marriage because of major sexual repression issues that stemmed from the guilt associated with sein their marriage because of major sexual repression issues that stemmed from the guilt associated with sex.

The issue has only become more urgent since then, with groups such as the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) lobbying this year for the First Amendment Defense Act, which «prevents the federal government from punishing an individual or faith - based business because they can not in good conscience accommodate same - sex marriage in certain situations.»

A county clerk in Kentucky says her religious beliefs bar her from issuing same - sex marriage licenses, and a federal judge tosses her in jail.

Kim Davis, the county clerk, ceased issuing marriage licenses after the US Supreme Court ruled in favor of same - sex marriage.

ES: It seems — as you mentioned with LGBT issues and same - sex marriage — that culture is moving in a different direction than most people of practicing faith.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency: Conservative rabbinic group issues guidelines for same - sex wedding rituals The Conservative movement - affirming that same - sex marriages have «the same sense of holiness and joy as that expressed in heterosexual marriages» - last week established rituals for same - sex wedding ceremonies.

Birth certificates will no longer list «father's name» and «mother's name» but «Parent 1 / Parent 2,» a change already made on certificates issued in some jurisdictions that recognize same - sex marriage.

Now it is unclear which ruling takes precedence, so the judges who are supposed to be issuing marriage licenses have no idea whether or not same sex marriage is currently legal in their state or not.

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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.

It would not be out of the realm of possibility for Senate Republicans to back a deal for a less - generous increase in order to get the issue off the table in an election year, like they did for same - sex marriage.

Even though the CDU / CSU did not give in on same sex marriage and made only minor concessions on the issue of double citizenship, the SPD could enforce positions fostering its working class image.

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.

The example of same - sex marriage offers promising evidence that the Scottish public is amenable to discussing these kinds of issues when they're framed in terms of human rights and equality.