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Sentence Examples The two are among the eight same-sex couples who went to court seeking the right to get married. Most of the commission's proposals are intended to take same-sex parenting into account. For university students, same-sex friends are primary sources of need fulfillment. Women, on the other hand, seem to thrive better in same-sex sibling relationships. Fairy tales were deployed by Wildeans to express same-sex desire in a thickly coded array of tropes. In 1970, I filed the first-ever suit against the state of California seeking legal recognition of same-sex marriages. At the moment, few topics polarize local Methodist conferences more than the question of same-sex marriages. The civil union law is expressly designed to extend that same protection to same-sex couples. In 2004, 60 percent of Hoosiers surveyed supported extending at least some rights to same-sex couples. What was gratifying to see about the cartoon, however, was its treatment of same-sex child-rearing. But Orthodox Judaism has always quietly upheld the same decree against same-sex unions. As a result of Lawrence many, of all orientations and political creeds, see same-sex marriage as the next step. The month of May will see an Irish referendum on the legalization of same-sex marriage. There are some very vocal proponents who would persuade whoever will listen, that same-sex sexual orientation is inborn. In the 2010s, conservatives who have lost the moral battle on LGBT equality are demanding exemptions to same-sex marriage. Those adults may be the child's biological parents, or they may be step-parents, same-sex parents, grandparents, and other near relatives. No contractual arrangements or personal agreements between same-sex or de facto couples can override the legislation. In addition, if a state disfavors same-sex marriage it cannot be compelled to recognize such a union performed in another state. The Toronto-based advocate for same-sex marriage says human rights should never be subject to a numbers game. The bill would not force clergy opposed to same-sex marriage to solemnize the vows. Show More Sentences The film drew loud protests when it was being shot in Guinea due to the same-sex relationship which formed the story's basis. In California, one assemblyman just introduced legislation to legalize same-sex marriage. Thus, Massachusetts will now take the lead among states as the only one to grant the right of civil marriage to same-sex couples. This book marks an important contribution to the growing literature in the history of sexuality, especially the study of same-sex relationships between men. Hundreds of businesses have extended benefits to same-sex partners. The legal recognition of same-sex marriage is a result of decades of work done by gay rights activists. Support for civil unions and same-sex marriage has been steadily dropping in polls. His comments were seized on by supporters and opponents of same-sex marriage. The 1990s brought a movement for legalizing same-sex marriages, but it initially enjoyed little success. How come the same people who call same-sex marriage immoral are so often up to their necks in heterosexual hanky-panky? Given that lengthy list, I ask how anyone can possibly say that civil unions are not same-sex marriages. What renders these tales of same-sex love almost unbearably poignant is their constant battle to be retrieved. Even our own faith is in turmoil internally, split over same-sex marriages, divorce, gay priests, and more. Seeking judicial fiats for same-sex unions short-circuits the debate that is the responsibility of legislative bodies. It may be too late to reintroduce same-sex schools into the secondary school system throughout the region. Not just same-sex marriage laws but public opinion continues to shift in the favor of sexual and gender minorities. Under the social welfare code, members of same-sex couples are treated as individuals and their claims are assessed independently. Other arguments against same-sex marriage were similarly lanced by the judge. For example, same-sex couples are entitled to individual benefits, unlike married heterosexual couples. Finally he considers the fundamental nature of marriage and whether or not extending it to same-sex couples would constitute a threat thereto. Show More Sentences Ninety-nine 4-year-old male and female children were asked to name body parts on a same-sex, anatomically correct doll. I could not help but think that they were not only insulting same-sex parented families but also single-parent families. She said that because same-sex marriages aren't sanctioned, it's as though our society views her son as a second-class citizen. It is outrageous to use women in same-sex relationships and single women as scapegoats. Most contemporary Mormons oppose same-sex marriage, and they're also committed to monogamy. Then they say that discrimination against gays is unjust, but backhand them saying that same-sex unions aren't equivalent to marriage. The film doesn't stop at intergenerational same-sex relations or drug trips. The state already has a statute banning recognition of same-sex marriages and civil unions. But in efforts to erect fire walls against same-sex relationships, the Mormon Church is unparalleled. Our government has just passed coast-to-coast legislation legalizing same-sex marriage. Most objections to same-sex marriage seem to be rooted in religious faith or prejudice and defy proof or disproof. His congregation believes same-sex unions go against basic Anglican beliefs. The dissident priests and parishes are opposed to the church's blessing of same-sex unions. And it is difficult to object to same-sex marriage when so many binary-defying unions have already taken place. In Uganda, legislators are considering further criminalization of LGBT advocacy and same-sex relationships. To those who agreed with him, Bush pledged that the law against same-sex marriage would remain intact. The patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church even opined that same-sex marriage is a sign of the apocalypse. The multitude of decisions invalidating laws prohibiting same-sex marriage have rested on three different rationales. Closed courthouses, rogue clerks, and misleading statements from the attorney general as Florida welcomes same-sex marriage. In Massachusetts, for example, baker is running as a pro-choice, pro same-sex marriage Republican nominee. Show More Sentences Kashkari, an Indian American who looks vaguely like a bald Ray Romano, is both pro-choice and a supporter of same-sex marriage. The first country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage, Denmark still waves its banner high. The Fox News host seemed to belittle Laura Ingraham during an on-air clash about same-sex marriage. Bush busy engaging constituents on both sides of the same-sex marriage debate ahead of the 2004 presidential election. The cascade of same-sex marriage rulings is now a torrent, each more quotable and image-ready than the last. The church began spending money to fight gay marriage in the 1990s, when Hawaii was expected to become the first state to legally wed same-sex couples. Yet this theoretical resolution is cold comfort to same-sex couples living in the many states that maintain marriage bans. Single-parent, same-sex, and common-law families barely penetrated public consciousness, much less the Hebrew lexicon. The court would not be required to rule on the constitutionality of same-sex marriage bans generally. Indeed, the very idea of a same-sex marriage seemed to most people a contradiction in terms. Collins is also a cosponsor of a bill to give same-sex couples equal access to immigrant visas. As it stands, candidates do not have much of an incentive to come out in favor of same-sex marriage. Since then, bills legalizing same-sex marriage have been passed in Rhode Island and Delaware. Over the next six months hundreds of same-sex couples married. Allow adoption agencies not to place kids with same-sex couples. By June 2016, same-sex marriage is likely to be the law of the land. In Kansas, as in many states, challenges to same-sex marriage bans are wending their way through the courts. I've changed my mind about same-sex marriage as experience has dispelled my fears of the harms from same-sex marriage. Scotus' landmark same-sex marriage decisions Wednesday are affecting more than just gay couples. We can entertain these divergent visions of the future because same-sex marriage was really a campaign, not a movement. Show More Sentences General Eric Holder announced that the DOJ will recognize same-sex marriages in all jurisdictions. All this furore about same-sex marriages seems a storm in a teacup to me. Comes word that the National Cathedral, an episcopal Church, will start to perform same-sex marriages. Texas on Wednesday began issuing death certificates that recognize same-sex marriages, state officials said. In Palm Beach County, in the State of Florida, courts are performing same-sex marriages but will not perform same-sex divorces. In the past decade, support for same-sex marriage has escalated, a phenomenon that will only continue. The decision requires the federal government to recognize as married same-sex couples who are legally married under state law. Supreme Court wasn't really about same-sex marriage, and it wasn't really about states' rights. The bill specifies that the Church of England and Church in Wales would be banned in law from offering same-sex marriages. She regards the androgyny, same-sex sexuality, or misogynist attitudes of the various male protagonists in these authors' works as transgressions of the two-gender model. The religious basis of the fiercest opposition to same-sex marriage is a truism. That perception is a much bigger problem for supporters of same-sex marriage than its foes. Bound by teachings on same-sex marriage, yes, but there was apparently some wiggle room on the issue of marriage in general. The Hanna victory comes as same-sex marriage is polling increasingly well, especially in New York and other liberal strongholds. Voters in Maine, Maryland and Washington State became the first to approve same-sex marriage at the ballot box rather than through courts or legislatures. In November, Spain's highest court upheld a law legalising same-sex marriage brought in by the socialist government of Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero. Historically, the singling out of same-sex relations as unnatural is a comparatively recent development. My spouse, Jeff Bechtloff, and I were wed during that brief window of hopefulness when same-sex marriage was legal in California. But he got 16 percent of the black vote in Ohio and Pennsylvania, where the campaign focused on issues like same-sex marriage and school vouchers. Those opposing same-sex marriage are on their heels, and increasingly unwilling or unable to make a stand against it. Show More Sentences Still, the man did starve himself in the name of a same-sex marriage ban and it, unsurprisingly, earned him a lot of backlash. They are, he said, serial huggers who often have impaired relationships with same-sex companions. The Arizona law seems to apply to services beyond those tied to weddings, but same-sex weddings are the impetus for these bills. Paul is against same-sex marriage to such an extent that he compared it with interspecies marriage earlier this summer. In 1996, only 27 percent of Americans supported the legalization of same-sex marriage. The state would provide equality under the law and people would be free to express their belief about the morality of same-sex marriage through free association. Indeed, the original had same-sex relationships and was the first time Nintendo allowed such relationships in a game. Several states include religious exemptions to nondiscrimination law and same-sex marriage laws. Nearly every Democratic officeholder in the land supports same-sex marriage, and each day seems to bring another Republican over. Booker had previously refused to officiate at any weddings as a statement of principle until same-sex marriage was legalized. Opponents of same-sex marriage say that even liberals have started to feel the effects of the witch hunt. So far, supporters of same-sex marriage say they are three votes short of an override in the Senate and 12 in the House. Interspersed between the usual mix of drag queens, topless women, bottomless men and leather-clad bears rode a fleet of white limousines carrying newly wed same-sex couples. Longtime neighbors embraced the same-sex couples who were shelling out thousands of dollars to fix mansions and split-levels once built by aristocrats of European descendants. The homosocial paradigm of the fraternity of officers, however, produces a new impossibility, for its same-sex society cannot reproduce, cannot generate a future. One partner of a same-sex couple could well take this approach. My favorite objection has to be that putting students in same-sex classes doesn't prepare them to interact in the real world, implying that co-education automatically does. It is further important to ascertain if infidelities are same-sex or opposite-sex relationships, as this might influence meanings of infidelity in relationships. The conjunction of events marks a widening of the challenge posed by San Francisco's mayor, who last month authorised wedding ceremonies for same-sex couples. Nonetheless, his choreography, which often features a racially diverse cast, nudity, and same-sex coupling, is not always easily digested by Middle America. Show More Sentences Not that there's anything much at stake in all of this, for he isn't a realist, and the same-sex dalliances he discloses are pure Hollywood fantasy. It has decriminalized medical marijuana, legalized assisted suicide and earlier this year, began granting marriage licenses to same-sex couples in the Portland area. Apparently wracked with indecision, the Supreme Judicial Court needs to get off the dime and render a verdict in same-sex marriage in the commonwealth. Relationships between same-sex friends and family members are characterized by a high degree of intimacy, body contact and the use of affectionate diminutives. Yet, in the same situation, same-sex life partners usually require rigorous home visits and family studies. Granade had earlier struck down a provision added to the Alabama Constitution that banned same-sex unions. Consider the fate of same-sex marriage in Kansas over last two months. This week, Florida became the 36th state to allow same-sex marriage. Female same-sex sexuality is represented in ways which are circumscribed by the conventions of pornonormativity and heteroflexibility. It will apply to convictions under old gross indecency laws against men who had consensual same-sex relationships. The last word on same-sex marriage has not yet been written by the Court. In Halpern, in the process of extending marriage to same-sex couples, ONCA severed the relation between marriage and reproduction. Nigeria's parliament on Thursday passed a bill which criminalises same-sex marriages with prison terms of up to 14 years. Lord Dear, a cross-bencher, argued that same-sex marriage could lead to an increase in prejudice. In 1983, the otolaryngologist began a painstaking, 17-year routine of collecting ear-infection data on same-sex twins and triplets. The synods' action leaves the decision to bless same-sex partnerships to the discretion of local church councils. Originally published as a serial webcomic, Artifice is a full-color graphic novel that tells a cyberpunk same-sex love story. Cohen's mincing voice and anti-gay message were intended to rebaptize Poland before its debate on the bill legalizing same-sex civil unions. The state is now issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. His statement, intended as an attack on same-sex marriage, is also an assault on those of us who are straight, married and child-free. Show More Sentences The amount we know about same-sex couples is minuscule compared with the amount we know about heterosexual couples. There have been documented instances of police being unwilling to investigate instances of acquaintance rape and same-sex sexual assaults. My testimony was non-consensual as I was forced to rat on my husband since our same-sex marriage is not recognized. On April 7, 2003, Senator Rick Santorum signaled his opposition to same-sex marriage in no uncertain terms. Special attention must also be paid to the issue of coming out in families from cultures that do not readily accept same-sex sexual orientations. It may just be a matter of time before a same-sex extramarital affair is dredged up. Sooner or later, friends like this are going to start contracting same-sex marriages of convenience. The generation which grew up in a world where being gay was an imprisonable offence are now the only age group that opposes same-sex marriages. Perry case now before the Supreme Court, which challenges California's Proposition 8 barring same-sex marriage, reports CBS News. Children raised by same-sex parents are healthier and happier. General Synod 2010 did not approve the so-called local option that would allow dioceses to grant same-sex blessings. The shift leftward appears to fit with trends on very specific issues such as same-sex marriage. Same-sex heterogender relationships are more openly acknowledged in Bugis society than same-sex homogender relationships. The big public battle at the time was whether gays should be allowed to adopt children and whether to recognize nonbiological same-sex parents. They can do nothing about the reality that their biological parent and that parent's same-sex partner decided to have a child. The law entered into effect on January 2008 and regulates common-law marriage for different-or same-sex couples throughout the nation. So do losses, such as the widespread legalization of same-sex marriage. These beneficiaries of international surrogacy include same-sex couples, infertile opposite-sex couples, and unmarried or unmated individuals. A same-sex one-night stand given unexpected meaning and a show about Tourette's that reinvents the double entendre are just some of the things you can expect. For instance, when it comes to Eros, very little is written for undergraduates about same-sex relationships, leading to a heterocentric bias in the field. Show More Sentences Maurice has found perhaps its greatest resonance in the 21st century, when the cause of same-sex marriage is on the march, a cause that Alec and Maurice poignantly emblemize. Windsor, the number of states recognizing same-sex marriage has exploded. Legal experts did not anticipate that a ruling in the Hood County case would force Criner and the other holdouts to begin issuing same-sex marriage licenses. He said, for him, the Liberals defined Canada by championing medicare and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and by addressing such issues as same-sex marriage. So the essentialists were right after all, one might conclude on learning that in many species there's evidence of sexual orientation and even same-sex pair-bonding. Does anyone doubt that men loved men and women loved women before some German sexologists at the end of the 19th century gave this same-sex human fact a zoological name? Hodges and three related cases made same-sex marriage legal nationwide and will dramatically expand and protect the rights of same-sex couples for generations to come. Card is a raging homophobic assclown who believes that America should rise up violently and overthrow the government for any hint of support of same-sex marriage. The TUC wants the Government to stop widowers and same-sex couples losing out by requiring equal rights to survivor pensions to be fully backdated. Today we hear a lot about those who have had what's often called Road to Damascus experiences on every issue from guns and same-sex marriage to the sanctity-of-life and taxes. The ruling applies regardless of whether the couple lives in a jurisdiction that recognizes same-sex marriage or a jurisdiction that does not recognize same-sex marriage. Examples from Classical Literature Herbert striking down Utah's ban on civil marriage for same-sex couples as unconstitutional. Then, as criminal laws supplemented or replaced ecclesiastical laws, same-sex relations became crimes as well. Canonically, I am not allowed to bless same-sex unions nor is any other cleric in this diocese or in this church. The bill will allow magistrates who object to same-sex marriage to opt out of solemnizing the ceremonies, even though they are public officials. You said when you were approached about marrying Ann Heche that in Vermont, where they now have legal same-sex marriage, that if they'd done that, you might do it. The HHS department has unveiled new guidance aimed at protecting hospital patients' right to choose their own visitors, including same-sex domestic partners. When I first met Gus Van Sant in the mid 1980s, My Own Private Idaho was his dream project, almost utopian in design, for its unabashed portrayal of same-sex love. While the same-sex marriage debate raged in 2003, Melissa Etheridge and Tammy Lynn Michaels took matters into their own hands and threw themselves a wedding. He said while there was an openness towards affirming faithful monogamous same-sex marriages, there was unease over the marriages being solemnised in church. Any law that threatens clergy who choose to solemnize a union of same-sex couples, and threatens them with civil or criminal penalties, is unconstitutional. Find more words! 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