And he has noted what any person of common sense has also noted: «The family is threatened by growing efforts on the part of some to redefine
the very institution of marriage, by relativism, by the culture of the ephemeral, by a lack of openness to life.»
The family is also threatened by growing efforts on the part of some to redefine
the very institution of marriage, by relativism, by the culture of the ephemeral, by a lack of openness to life.»
God's clear right in this, as well as the clear duty of couples, stems from
the very institution of marriage.
Not exact matches
First, He makes this point to underscore that
marriage, by its
very nature, is a divinely - ordained
institution — that the originator
of marriage is the Creator Himself.
Same - sex
marriage erodes the
very purpose
of marriage as a social
institution and trivializes the intellectual, psychological, and biological distinctions between men and women.
Regardless
of your position on homosexuality, when you consider the numbers, it becomes clear that gay
marriage would have
very little effect on an «
institution» that we heterosexuals have done a fine job
of screwing up on our own.
He differentiated between homophobia and opposition to homosexuality, saying «just because a person isn't in favor
of gay
marriage doesn't mean that one is homophobic — let's be
very clear on that,» but was thoughtful in his response to whether or not he thought the Catholic Church was a homophobic
institution.
By its
very nature the
institution of marriage and married love is ordered to the procreation and education
of the offspring and it is in them that it finds its crowning glory.
When I saw who had written that, my hopes for an intelligent, or at least receptive, government response to the campaign against gay «
marriage» then getting under way died within me: those words were written by Theresa May, the Home Secretary, and they appeared on the
very morning she launched a «consultation» on the government's proposals to enforce a change in the legal definition
of this ancient
institution.
He went back to bed and I laid on the kitchen floor, hand cupped over my mouth, simultaneously laughing and crying, trying to wrap my mind around the fact that he wanted to marry me even though I'd spent the entirety
of our relationship being
very vocal about my thoughts on
marriage, it being a dying
institution, yadda yadda yadda.
So maybe I did want to get married, and after 10 happy months
of dating, my then - boyfriend confessed that, even though he was
very aware
of my strong feelings on the
institution of marriage, he wanted to be with me forever.
Institution of Marriage - Most people don't view the word «
institution» in a
very favorable way.
As I noted at AEI Ideas, «you can not easily strip
marriage of its constituent parts, such as more money and a supportive parenting environment,» and imagine that those parts will be as easily produced outside
of the
very institution that is ordered to their generation and cultivation.
In other words, the need for counseling that targets the unique interpersonal dynamics and often complicated emotional, behavioral, and psychological stresses
of family life is
very likely as old as the
institution of marriage itself.