I’m sure you’ve heard of “starter homes” and “starter vehicles.” Well, we now have “starter marriages!” Also described as “learner marriages,” these are marriages that usually take place between people in their early to mid-twenties. These marriages are not intended or expected to last for very many years. They are considered more of a training […]
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Some brethren claim that an innocent spouse has no right to repudiate his fornicator-mate and marry another if that fornicator has already broken the physical marriage relationship. They base the innocent spouse’s divorce right, not upon his own innocence and his mate’s fornication, but upon the status of the physical marriage relationship. They claim that
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The Pharisees once asked Jesus, “Is it lawful to divorce one’s wife for any cause?” Jesus answered their question. He described what was “lawful” in marriage by citing God’s original design of marriage, which was one man + one woman for life (Matthew 19:3-6, see also Genesis 2:24). Jesus did not say man + man
On Monday, October 6th, the Supreme Court announced its decision not to consider appeals by Indiana, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia and Wisconsin to ban gay marriage. This allows the appellate court rulings to stand, thus authorizing gay marriage in these 5 states. Since Colorado, Kansas, North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia and Wyoming also fall under
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The institution of marriage is again under assault. Just a couple of years after an Australian man married his yellow Lab, a British woman has now married her pet Terrier. Not to be outdone, a Brazilian man has plans to marry his goat! Sadly, I am not manufacturing these stories, as evidenced from the preceding
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The Supreme Court has handed down its long-awaited rulings regarding DOMA and California’s Proposition 8 (anti-gay-marriage) law. The high court struck down Section 3 of DOMA, thus authorizing the extension of marital benefits to legally married gay couples, and it ruled that the defenders of California’s Prop-8 law had no legal standing to bring suit.
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Hillary Clinton recently made news when she came out in support of gay marriage. This surprised very few, for Hillary is a liberal Democrat, and the Democratic Party is generally supportive of gay marriage (including Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden). However, the support of gay marriage certainly isn’t limited to the Democratic Party.
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Perhaps you are familiar with Dr Seuss’ “Thing 1 and Thing 2” of Cat In The Hat fame. Well, France’s new socialist government is proposing something similar. In order to accommodate new legislation legalizing same-sex marriage and gay adoption, France plans to replace the terms “mother” and “father” with the terms “parent 1” and “parent
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The Obama Justice Department recently stated that it will no longer defend section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act. The Defense of Marriage Act [DOMA] is the law that defines “marriage” as being for a man and a woman [as opposed to a man and a man or a woman and a woman]. This
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