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Same Sex Marriage

heterosexual marriages are recognized or accepted because that is what God intended. This is further emphasized by the fact that, ...

In Favor of Same-Sex Marriage - With Qualifications

define marriage as the union of a man and a woman. The same debate in mostly-liberal Vermont several years ago resulted in ...

H.R. 3396 Defense of Marriage Act

(THOMAS, 1996). The Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) has two major purposes: it basically says that no state must honor a same-sex ...

Contemporary Threats to Marriage and the Family

evolved to the point, in fact, where the extended families of old have been severed. So-called nuclear families have arisen in th...

Chopin and Glaspell: Marriage and Society

in society, regardless of time. In the time period of Chopins work one assumes it takes place towards the end of the 19th century...

Against Same Sex Marriages

is what distinguishes us and allows us to distinguish ourselves from other animals and, in the future, from intelligent machines" ...

Marriage in William Wycherley’s Restoration Comedy, The Country Wife

best understood within the context of how many English couples regarded marriage during this time. Marriages were not love matche...

In Favor of Same Sex Marriage

In truth, this is an argument that really does not have much of a foundation. It is vague and does not do anything but essentially...

Marriage of the Same Sex

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

Ibsen's "A Doll's House" - Masculinity And Marriage

are no different in this regard, inasmuch as they are inherently diverse by nature yet are also further divided by social dictates...

Marriage Norms: India v Canada

with individuals tracing their lineage through their mothers rather than their fathers. A much more important consideration in re...

Gay Marriage and the Catholic Church

in these times of change and forward movement. Will the Catholic Church change its stance? That remains to be seen. This is like e...

Gay Marriage

since the beginning of time. In fact, one could likely argue that in many cultures it has been, and is, far more prevalent than it...

Is Marriage an Institution?

personal union, there are elements such as national censuses and legal affiliations and rights that are defined through marriage. ...

Divorce and the Impacts of Globalization

Introduction The rate of successful marriage verses divorce varies considerable between the...

Pointers for Marriage Counselors

Question 1(a). Psychologists, sociologists, and others have expended considerable effort identifying both the strengths tha...

How Pygmies And Americans View Marriage

years, not the least of which includes an almost mandatory tradition to an outright rebellion against what some believed was nothi...

Same Sex Marriages

of grandparents, aunts or uncles, brothers or sisters, adoptive parents, single parents and almost any sort of family one could im...

Paradigm Shift: Marriage

and remain within regardless of the hardships. This attitude changed after a decade, for a variety of mental illness instabilities...

A CASE ABOUT TEXAS INFORMAL MARRIAGE AND PROPERTY RIGHTS

showing Jenn and Brad as the parents. Through the following years, Jenn and Brad passed themselves off as a married couple, with t...

Gay Marriage

be relatively conservative in terms of ideals. "Many of my fellow conservatives have an almost knee-jerk hostility toward gay marr...

THE CASE FOR GAY MARRIAGE

the argument, straight couples will be less likely to think marriage is important, and therefore will not be as willing to stay to...

Prohibitions Against Gay Marriage are Just

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

An Argument Against Same-Sex Marriage

opposition of gay marriage. Making such a radical exception to the traditional constraints of marriage would introduce problems i...

Latin America and Gay Marriage

wedding is what this event implies about secularization, as a deep fear of the Catholic Church has been that secular attitudes wil...

Perspective on Marriage/ Pro, Con Arguments

entertained an Indian couple at her home and the table conversation focused in the institution of marriage. Smita, the Indian wife...

Creating an Outreach Ministry/Pastoral Marriage Counseling

addressing a culture that is distinct and with its own specific worldviews and orientations (Borthwick, 1999). There are t...

The Controversy Surrounding Gay Marriage

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

Exploring a Doll’s House

House shocked audiences when it first appeared with its depiction of a woman who refused to live by societys "rules." This paper d...

Premarital Sex

outside of marriage. Chastity is the watchword of Christian ethics pertaining to sexual relations. Its teachings reflect t...