There is power in getting together
with other marriage - minded couples.»
This status is a far - reaching legal acknowledgment of the intimate relationship between two people, a relationship deemed by the State worthy of dignity in the community equal
with all other marriages.
Not exact matches
Conservative supporters have looked the
other way when it comes his multiple
marriages and dalliances
with Democrats (during the debate he boasted that Hillary Clinton «had to come to my wedding» because of his donations to the Clinton Foundation.)
Penelope Trunk, the author of Brazen Careerist: The New Rules for Success, argues that one of the advantages of the work spouse relationship is its no - strings - attached vibe — it offers the closeness and support of a
marriage,
with out any sexual ties, commitment, or
other relationship baggage.
With marriage and children will come expenses, such as daycare costs, school fees, mortgages or rent and
other necessities.
The leadership contestants intend this sabre - thrusting to hearken back to Alberta's pre-NDP glory days, when former premier Peter Lougheed declared unholy war against a different Trudeau's National Energy Program, and throttled oil shipments to eastern Canada; and when Ralph Klein routinely clashed
with Ottawa and
other provinces, including on same - sex
marriage and limits to private health care.
The fact that in western Europe between a tenth and a fifth of each generation never married, combined
with a relatively late average age at
marriage for women, implied that fertility levels were normally lower than in
other societies.
An anonymous ex-girlfriend, who dated Porter after his
marriages, wrote to both Holderness and Willoughby describing his abuse, saying, «Rob was abusive, degrading, a liar and a cheater and during the course of my relationship
with him, I found out that he was to
others, too.»
I'm
with Obama on this gay
marriage: Marriage between a man and woman should be «gay» meaning happy, enjoying each other
marriage:
Marriage between a man and woman should be «gay» meaning happy, enjoying each other
Marriage between a man and woman should be «gay» meaning happy, enjoying each
other always.
The
other is the Windsor case — discussed by Carl Scott earlier — in which the majority opinion not only sets aside part of the Defense of
Marriage Act passed
with overwhelming support in 1996, but also dismisses and disparages the motives of those who voted for it.
Or are you going to tell us you agree
with God that
marriage should be FORCED on some people who may hate each
other?
Less than half of David Cameron's party voted in favour of same - sex
marriage,
with the Prime Minister needing support from
other parties to get the legislation through.
Perhaps
with enough people hammering the issues of abortion and gay
marriage, Harris is right to direct her attention and effort to
other issues of mercy and justice, but the flavor of the book seems to downplay the importance of traditional
marriage, infant life, and the church's role in mercy ministry.
I would take issue
with two
other items: 1) The LDS Church never «disavowed» plural
marriage in the sense of repudiating it.
It would be awesome to also hook them up
with other dead - gay - Mormon - converts for posthumous
marriage.
Meanwhile, there are millions of moderate American Christians who have no inclination towards opposing gay
marriage at all who end up getting lumped together
with these
other «Christians» as being hateful.
«It was common knowledge that Newt was involved
with other women during his [first]
marriage to Jackie.
Jesus was a man; the Catholic Church is the Bride of Christ; Priests are married to the Church and most love their Spouse and would want no
other;
Marriage is between a man and a woman, making a covenant
with Jesus Christ.
We are reminded not just of our strength but of our weakness as well; not just of glory but also of misery; not just of pleasure but also of finitude; not just of warmth and the coming - to - be of the self in relation
with others, but also of limitation and isolation; not just
marriage but divorce; not just trust but betrayal and desertion; not just good feeling but pain, suffering, daily reminders of mortality, impermanence, the inevitability and the necessity of death.
Of course there are
other reasons for my sporadic blogging this year: a surprise new baby coming which completely disoriented us, a new book to finish writing (and I will share all about that in January), travelling and speaking all over North America, stewarding the message of Jesus Feminist throughout her first year of life, creating the Jesus Feminist collection
with Imagine Goods, a trip to Haiti, new opportunities as a writer, three tinies at home
with their own lives and drama and growth and change, remodelling parts of our home,
marriage, church, friends, life, work, laundry (oh, can we talk laundry?!)
I spoke about giving and sharing, how living
with other people means that we can not always have our own way and how in
marriage, as in our families and churches, we must place the interests and needs of
others above our own.
So great and splendid is the educational ministry of Christian parents that Saint Thomas has no hesitation in comparing it
with the ministry of priests: «Some only propagate and guard spiritual life by a spiritual ministry: this is the role of the sacrament of Orders;
others do this for both corporal and spiritual life, and this is brought about by the sacrament of
marriage, by which a man and a woman join in order to beget offspring and bring them up to worship God.
There is no area in social science in which the evidence stacks up so completely on one side:
marriage and traditional family life are associated
with good outcomes in terms of health, wealth, and
other indicators of well - being.
Do I have any problem
with two people who love each
other voluntarily committing to the sort of relationship that my wife and I enjoy and calling it
Marriage?
Marriage also recognises that our relationships
with each
other are more than physical: they should involve knowledge and love - seeing and accepting the truth and good that each human being is.
Many evangelicals, Catholics, and
others sincerely believe that Christianity's doctrines on
marriage and sex are inextricably tied up
with the foundations of the faith.
What I was doing (
with others) was helping people in crisis, helping alcholics and drug addicts, victims of abuse, the poor, helping people to escape the occult, those spiritually oppressed and abused, broken
marriages etc..
In Indonesia, persons who do not identify
with one of the six official religions (Islam, Cathoilc, Protestant, Confucian, Buddhism, Hindu), including people
with no religion, to experience official discrimination in the context ofcivil registration of
marriages and births and
other situation involving family law.
Chastity, on the
other hand, isn't about the state of your body, but the state of your soul; it's not just about whether or not you've had sex (although part of being chaste is having sex only in the context of
marriage), it's about self - control, respecting your body, and enduring your trials
with patience.
He applied his own theory about justification as establishing a covenant of grace to the
marriage union, and argued that «God draws a husband and wife into a covenant relationship
with each
other.»
A true commitment to
marriage gives the grace and strength to gradually overcome individual self - love, to learn to understand the
other in depth, to learn to forgive and to ask for forgiveness, to be tolerant
with the defects of the
other and intolerant
with one's own defects.
By meeting regularly
with other parents who also want to improve their
marriages and families, you can be helpful to each
other.
This question becomes urgent as cultural elites grow more hostile, and orthodox Christian beliefs (shared by most
other traditional faiths and by many
with no faith) about sex and
marriage are redefined as hatred and bigotry.
Those who think of
marriage counseling as an exclusively modern phenomenon may be surprised to read that Gregory counsels those who are married to «study to please» their sexual partner.5 Partners in
marriage are above all counseled «to bear
with mutual patience the things in which they sometimes displease each
other «6 (cf. Gal.
When you experience conflict in your
marriage, try these steps as a way of interrupting the negative cycle: (a) Clarify, in your own minds and
with each
other, what you aren't getting from the
marriage (e.g. affirmation, affection, sexual satisfaction), (b) Concentrate, not on the areas in which your needs are mutually exclusive or contradictive, but on the «areas of overlap» (20) of your two need systems.
But despite Driscoll - addicted buzz, Real
Marriage is strikingly conventional, emphasizing the same commonsense ideals that other Christian marriage books do: honesty, mutual respect, forgiveness, and becoming friends with one's
Marriage is strikingly conventional, emphasizing the same commonsense ideals that
other Christian
marriage books do: honesty, mutual respect, forgiveness, and becoming friends with one's
marriage books do: honesty, mutual respect, forgiveness, and becoming friends
with one's spouse.
Marriage is best seen in our weaknesses colliding
with each
other, not in completing each
other.
You do not carry the responsibility for your wife, nor for
other men, nor by any comparative standard
with other men, but only as an individual, before God, where it is not asked whether your
marriage was in accordance
with others,
with the common practice, or better than
others, but where you as an individual will be asked only whether it was in accordance
with your responsibility as an individual.
Though younger students are much less likely to be married than older ones — and although
marriage in this and
other Auburn studies is closely and positively associated
with students» economic comfort levels — younger students are much more likely to be full - time students.
Does this stop Christians from tying up the supreme court
with law suits concerning school prayer, abortion, gay
marriage, or numerous
other absurdities?
In polite company, and for the sake of keeping peace
with each
other (because mutual apostasies take so much effort), we can do
with marriage what we do
with our disagreements about eucharist and baptism: keep our mouths shut and let God sort it out in the end.
But it has always had a deep investment in
marriage as a highly important good and in maintaining the integrity of the institution — that is, the integration of covenant love
with its
other classic goods.
He relates the story of a minister who, in a sermon on
marriage, shocked his congregation
with the frank acknowledgment that, yes, the grass is greener on the
other side.
It is not the will of God that children suffer from hunger and malnutrition and grow up in unsanitary slums
with lack of proper education, that persons because of the color of their skin are debarred from schools, hospitals, employment, or housing projects; that persons are denied
other basic human rights; that personalities and homes are broken through drink and that great numbers die on highways through drunken driving; that
marriage vows are often taken lightly and that easy divorces shatter home after home and leave children the pawns of the parents» selfishness.
The
other day, at a small group I attended, someone expressed concern for me because there is a lot of stuff going on in our community right now: illnesses, the threat of death,
marriages in serious trouble, depression... the kind of things that take time to deal
with.
The most important caring that takes place within one's own generation usually involves the significant
other with whom one lives intimately — usually a
marriage partner.
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.
Olson also invoked «fundamental rights» and was queried by Justice Scalia as to just exactly when it became unconstitutional to exclude homosexual couples from
marriage: 1791
with the Bill of Rights, 1868
with the 14th Amendment, or some
other date, perhaps after the Court declined in 1971 to review a Minnesota Supreme Court decision upholding opposite - sex
marriage requirements?
Rather, I argue that the profound and seemingly unmanageable pressures which
marriage faces are a spiritual and not a psychosocial matter, one having to do
with questions of human destiny: are we to live for ourselves, or for
others, or for both in some yet undiscovered dialectic of being?
When couples show up to
marriage counseling
with intimacy problems, you can almost always be sure than one or the
other has departed from the proper perspective and begun using their spouse or using seex as a bargaining chip for power or control in the relationship.