Fischer's political activism, however, began years before the advent of same-sex-marriage laws.
The advent of same-sex marriage brings us to unknown territory.
The judicially imposed advent of same-sex marriage in Massachusetts heralds a painful divorce: the divorce of morality from law.
To some parishioners attending the Trinity Evangelical Church near here, the advent of same-sex marriage called to mind the biblical cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.
The advent of same-sex marriage brings into focus a much larger transformation in how we have come to imagine the institution.
While heterosexuals of various faiths or none at all have long struggled to reconcile religious identity with personal fulfillment, the advent of same-sex marriage is now bringing this kind of tension to gay men and lesbians.
Roberto Miranda, pastor of the Lion of Judah, a largely Hispanic church here, said he indeed worried that the advent of same-sex marriages would "desensitize" people to homosexuality.
Instability and divorce in heterosexual marriage, the advent of same-sex marriage, gender equality, gay rights, falling fertility rates, and increasing numbers of people living on their own all suggest some profoundly new practices and experiences of Western kinship.
While it's true that some schools mentioned same-sex couples in diversity discussions, it wasn't mandated by the state or connected to the advent of same-sex marriage, and the referendums this Election Day say nothing at all about curriculums.
We don't see the gloom and doom and apocalyptic horror that Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI and their followers have foretold because of the advent of same-gender marriages".
His email the night before the advent of same-sex marriages placed the state's probate judges in a double bind.
