Essays 421 - 450
women being "accepted in the diaconate which is a part of Holy Orders" (Womens Ordination Conference, n.d.; also see The Campaign ...
of the couple. As Shakespeare juxtaposes their feelings of love, we find that they have not even met. Ferdinand is awakened by the...
acknowledge Muhammad as Allahs Prophet and offered encouragement and support for her husband throughout her life. Like his first...
highest possible degree of comfort and hygiene. It has to allow for environmental requirements and for the climate in which it is ...
offers the marriage contract, and the woman accepts: this is a contractual obligation which can only be broken by death or divorce...
in a same-sex marriage. The definition of marriage states that it is a union of two people of the opposite sex. Given...
of marriage and those who are against same-sex marriages argue that this issue will only serve to erode the institution even furth...
family rights" (Farrell 130; Stacey and Biblarz 159). In September of 2000, the Dutch parliament followed suit by also granting e...
is exemplified by the nuclear family that leaves women unfulfilled. It is ultimately this missing part of life--or the lack of fre...
decision to allow gay marriages, a new Pew Center poll shows 59 percent of Americans oppose such marriages, thats up from 55 perce...
from welcoming" (Watson, 1991, p. 350). The traditional rural peasant view of daughters is still that they are "excess baggage." W...
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...
manner inconsistent with the intentions of the people in enacting that provision. Yet that is precisely what has happened in the S...
homosexuality was not a lifestyle in the eighteenth century. Rather, having sex with someone of the same gender was something that...
opens "Marriage" delivers a millenarian prophecy that identifies Christ, revolution and apocalypse and, in so doing, "satanizes" a...
the line, asking if he can remain there till the storm passes. "He expressed an intention to remain outside, but it was soon ap...
that will be addressed on the following pages. Possible Causes of Homosexuality When exploring a subject as controversial and vo...
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...
setting for Nathaniel Hawthornes 1835 short story, "The May-Pole of Merry Mount." Bradford took a rather dim view of the festivit...
in 7th century Arabia" (Time, 2001; 50). For example, while many pagan societies of the time buried unwanted female infants alive,...
love one another. They give each other things, and try to understand one another as best they can. The audience feels that they do...
ailing partner; they cant file joint tax returns; there are no survivors benefits for the one left behind (Quindlen, 1992). Quind...
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...
in case state law would attempt to implement it. While that never came to fruition, some states already have laws on the books ban...
a shift in thinking. I suspect that when someone (in the West at any rate) hears the word "marriage" they automatically see it as...
the fact that historically, men have had sex with men and women with women. Sexuality is really a separate issue. Sex can occur be...
individual has many different rights, and they have the right to pursue their own well being, their own dreams, their own style of...
old marriage and children are an important part of these newly created families. With so many complications, one has to ask why pe...
It could be said that the ban, as well, could likely violate the concept of equality, which is also implied in the Constitution (T...