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et al, 1998, p. 883); and marital problems: establishing whether specific traits of each individual is the motivating factor behin...

the world. Whether an individual believes in free agency the right to personal decisions (privacy) or a system of behavior and co...

for the most part, Biblically and legally, heterosexual unions are the only ones legally recognized when it comes to marriage. The...

on the sanctity of traditional matrimony, traditional values, where a man and a woman join lives to create a family. Sex may be a...

women being "accepted in the diaconate which is a part of Holy Orders" (Womens Ordination Conference, n.d.; also see The Campaign ...

In four pages this paper examines how the definition of marriage has changed over the years with same sex unions among the topics ...

to allow same sex marriages, the savings to the court system would be enormous and the separation of the assets and arrangements f...

and even to couples who remain celibate within marriage. The multiple exceptions listed effectively refute the power of this argu...

individual has many different rights, and they have the right to pursue their own well being, their own dreams, their own style of...

argued that some cultures allow for a couple of the same sex to live as though a man and woman. Marriage, in the eyes of Violette,...

this paper, however, is to explore the thesis that sexual attraction has nothing to do with marriage. The thesis can be presented...

author points out, it would be impossible to spend as much time on each and every event and person mentioned in the Old Testament....

strictly forbidden. Supported by the assertion that "the life of a person is not his - rather, it belongs to the One Who granted ...

opposite sex. There is, in fact, a federal law (the Defense of Marriage Act) that prohibits such marriages (Hotakainen, 2009). ...

legal definitions of marriage exclude same-sex marriage but reveal little about what constitutes "marriage" other than as an insti...

by many as having originated in Greenwich Village New York in 1969 with the Stonewall Inn riots (Ahearn, 1996), is of course not a...

the fact that historically, men have had sex with men and women with women. Sexuality is really a separate issue. Sex can occur be...

This 3 page paper argues that the Supreme Court’s decisions in Loving and Brown v. Board of Education demonstrate its ability to p...

to everyone, therefore, nobody is denied equal protection of the laws that exist (Benne and McDermott, 2004). Activists also argu...

it is possible for these breakaway churches to form a communion or fellowship that can participate as a fully-fledged member of th...

to Father: "but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he made ...

unique personalities and writing styles (Thiessen, 1979). Theissen explains that the Holy Spirit supervised these writers to insur...

decision to allow gay marriages, a new Pew Center poll shows 59 percent of Americans oppose such marriages, thats up from 55 perce...

was viewed in the modern era as not so much a disease but was seen as lack of upbringing and evil intent. Gay relationships were s...

manner inconsistent with the intentions of the people in enacting that provision. Yet that is precisely what has happened in the S...

homosexuality was not a lifestyle in the eighteenth century. Rather, having sex with someone of the same gender was something that...

also in case law. Case law has given many good and worthwhile definition of marriage, one f the first is in the of Hyde v. Hyde an...

the religion the people already possessed. What was different was the book that he would begin to orally present, the Qoran which ...

who subsequently play a central role in Hays study, as the Bible clearly indicates that these people were black Africans. He offer...

In a paper of nine pages, the writer looks at the topic of same-sex marriage. Frameworks such as religion, politics, and ethical p...