Posts Tagged ‘Marriage’
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by San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives Christians should speak up for the uniqueness of marriage, says the head of the Christian Medical Fellowship. Dr Peter Saunders commended the Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, for taking a strong lead in advocating marriage. Dr Sentamu told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme this week [...]
by San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives A junior defence minister has distanced himself from David Cameron’s plan to legalise marriage for same-sex couples. Gerald Howarth told The Telegraph that Tory MPs should not be forced to vote in support of changing the legal definition of marriage if the issue is put before [...]
by San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives What ever you think about gay marriage, supporting a firm commitment made to the electorate in both the Conservative Party manifesto and the coalition agreement to support marriage through fiscal policy should take priority over implementing a proposal that is not in the agreement. The Prime [...]
by The Library of Congress The Christian Institute has come out in opposition to the Government’s plans to hold a consultation on whether to change the legal definition of marriage. Equality Minister Lynne Featherstone announced at the weekend that the Government would launch the consultation next spring. At present, only unions between a man [...]
by San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives All the legal rights of marriage are already available to homosexual couples through civil partnership registrations. Last year only 465 civil partnerships were registered in Scotland. This is not about rights, this is about redefining marriage for the whole of society at the behest of a [...]
by SMU Central University Libraries Some of the Episcopal Church bishops in New York will require gay clergy to avail themselves to the state’s Marriage Equality Act that legalises same-sex marriage when it comes into effect on July 24. Bishop Lawrence Provenzano of the Diocese of Long Island announced in a pastoral letter that [...]
Where Did The Idea Of Marriage Come From? A white wedding in a church with a horse and carriage may be every young woman’s dream, however the concept of marriage as a union between a man and woman (and sometimes between men and women note the plural) has its roots several thousand years before Christianity. [...]
by Nationaal Archief A new Vatican exhibition is to showcase around a hundred documents from the Vatican Secret Archives. The exhibition, entitled ‘Lux in Arcana – the Vatican Secret Archives unveiled’, will be inaugurated next February in Rome’s Capitoline Museums. Cardinal Raffaele Farina, archivist and librarian of the Holy Roman Church, said the exhibition [...]
by Brooklyn Museum NEW YORK – The New York Senate voted 33 to 29 to pass the gay marriage bill Friday night. The bill passed after two undecided Republican senators switched their votes to “yes” in the final moments before the vote on the bill. The chapter amendment on religious exemptions was passed earlier, [...]
