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3 Religious Issues

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

Premarital Counseling Effects Upon Marriage Length

do arise in marriages that are not foreseen by the partners at the time that they marry. Problems with in-laws, money and sex are...

Tutorial on Learning Decisions and Life Experiences

this case, the spouse can also learn about why men cheat (either by talking with other people who have gone through similar situat...

Defense of Same Sex Marriages

establish a legal precedent in 1967 which declared bans on interracial marriages as unconstitutional that states were forced to re...

Marriage and its Changing Definition

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

Caucasian and African American Interracial Marriages

in order to claim her white heritage she would essentially have to have her mother along to prove she was also Caucasian (Hubbynet...

Wives of Muhammad

acknowledge Muhammad as Allahs Prophet and offered encouragement and support for her husband throughout her life. Like his first...

So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba

of a European spinster. Rama calls this an "aspect of the New Africa" (24), a reference to modern, global politics affecting the l...

An Examination of Scripture, Same-Sex Marriage

This essay presented an argument that defends the AME's Church's opposition to same-sex marriage. The writer draws on scripture. ...

Women's Freedom and the Detriment of Marriage

is exemplified by the nuclear family that leaves women unfulfilled. It is ultimately this missing part of life--or the lack of fre...

Rogerian Argument in Support of Gay Marriages

of marriage and those who are against same-sex marriages argue that this issue will only serve to erode the institution even furth...

Supporting Gay Marriage

family rights" (Farrell 130; Stacey and Biblarz 159). In September of 2000, the Dutch parliament followed suit by also granting e...

Footwear's Evolution

highest possible degree of comfort and hygiene. It has to allow for environmental requirements and for the climate in which it is ...

Religious Rituals of Judaism and Christianity

offers the marriage contract, and the woman accepts: this is a contractual obligation which can only be broken by death or divorce...

US Same Sex Marriage History

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...

Gay Marriage Debate

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

Argument Against Sanctioning Gay Marriage

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

2 Papers on Romantic Poets

opens "Marriage" delivers a millenarian prophecy that identifies Christ, revolution and apocalypse and, in so doing, "satanizes" a...

Same Sex Marriages Should Not Be Allowed

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

Customs of Chinese Marriage Since 1949 Introduction of Communism

from welcoming" (Watson, 1991, p. 350). The traditional rural peasant view of daughters is still that they are "excess baggage." W...

Should There be Legalization of Same Sex Marriages?

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...

Evolution of Women's Roles in the Islamic Tradition

in 7th century Arabia" (Time, 2001; 50). For example, while many pagan societies of the time buried unwanted female infants alive,...

Foils and Marriage in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

him to be when she first met him at the ball: a rude egocentric boor. And yet, one of the Bingley sisters illuminates what society...

Competing Visions of Thomas Morton and William Bradford in 'The May Pole of Merry Mount' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

setting for Nathaniel Hawthornes 1835 short story, "The May-Pole of Merry Mount." Bradford took a rather dim view of the festivit...

Same Sex Marriages and the Baptist Church

that will be addressed on the following pages. Possible Causes of Homosexuality When exploring a subject as controversial and vo...

Islam and Interfaith Marriage

by His Grace to the garden of bliss and forgiveness. And He makes His signs clear to mankind, that they may receive admonition". M...

Marriage and Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

spouses, battered and emotionally wasted by the trauma of their loss of their children. While Sue, perhaps, takes on too much of t...

Choice and Society in The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy

playing at work is also a reasonable contention: there is, as he says, enough productive physical work available within a communit...

Utilitarian Views on Homosexuality

Mills view of homosexuality and same sex marriage be? How would one construct an argument against the morality of homosexual sex ...

Analyzing Same Sex Marriages Theologically and Philosophically

in our society advocate same-sex marriages vary dramatically. Individuals of the same sex have cohabited throughout history witho...