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for the most part, Biblically and legally, heterosexual unions are the only ones legally recognized when it comes to marriage. The...
the world. Whether an individual believes in free agency the right to personal decisions (privacy) or a system of behavior and co...
In twelve pages this research paper compares and contrasts Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Haywood's Fantomina in their presentat...
measure of repetition. According to information from the United Methodist News Service (05-09-00), the issue has come up at every ...
being primarily procreative, there is also a distinction made between marriages which cannot be consummated or which are sterile, ...
to a place where she thinks that such fantasies can be obtained. Now, while such romance can be found, it is often tempered with a...
forms of relationships that occur between unmarried lovers, which involved clandestine encounters. This aspect of Samoan courtship...
of psychology at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania and who has studied interracial relationships extensively, said: "We no longe...
writes in Marriage to a Difficult Man: The Uncommon Union of Jonathan and Sarah Edwards, "The Puritans loved robustly and gave mar...
because women are more honorable or faithful than are men, but because women are more economically insecure and "consequently fear...
view of the Christian belief system. In the Christian system of belief, it is the other way around. Good and evil are both active ...
Strung on slender blades of grass; Or a spiders web...
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 glory when the farming goes well. Of course, this bitterness is something felt by most housewives of an earlier generation and...
many questions which arise. II. Questions and Answers As requested by a student writing on this subject, this part of the pape...
statutes that address marriage, such as the 1996 Federal Defense of Marriage Act, which states that the word "marriage means only ...
devastating plague that has been killing many of his subjects. He speaks as if he is an anguished father: "My children, I am fill...
It could be said that the ban, as well, could likely violate the concept of equality, which is also implied in the Constitution (T...
a shift in thinking. I suspect that when someone (in the West at any rate) hears the word "marriage" they automatically see it as...
divorce rates should make a statement about the fate of the traditional family structures. Most statistics state that one in two m...
in case state law would attempt to implement it. While that never came to fruition, some states already have laws on the books ban...
the fact that historically, men have had sex with men and women with women. Sexuality is really a separate issue. Sex can occur be...
and Ms. Evans are members of a fundamentalist sect of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Days Saints (Mormons); this sect believ...
However, this feeble attempt at legal protection goes directly against another California law - termed a crime of sexual exploitat...
of gay marriage actually found its way into the patchwork of society. "Lesbian behavior does not fit within that framework of pub...
that the state must show that there are compelling reasons why marriage license should be issued only to heterosexual couples (Dor...
looks at the picture of a man killing a lion, and says that if the lion had painted the picture, it would have been the other way ...
without having been asked to do so, providing a reward of some type for this, or simply recognizing the effort and the initiative ...
of fancy, at least in her imagination. Austen states, "She was sensible and clever; but eager in everything: her sorrows, her joys...