The narrowest basis is that there's no rational basis [to the marriage bans].
It was a dreadful basis for a marriage: he slept with the many attractive women who wanted him, and she slept with Clark Gable, an affair that continued, on and off, for decades.
Our marriage, right from the beginning, was open and honest, creating the basis for a strong marriage.
Mr. Clement — who last week argued before the Supreme Court on behalf of states challenging President Obama's health care law — told the appeals panel that Congress had a rational basis for defining marriage as between a man and a woman.
When they reconvene on Thursday, the bishops will consider another amendment to the resolution on whether a church commission should try in the next three years to find out whether it is possible to develop a theological basis for the blessing of relationships outside marriage.
Indiana, Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Michigan, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, and Virginia signed onto the brief, which is largely based on the argument that "procreation" is a rational basis for the Act and for state marriage laws, as well.
But pride and/or terror are hardly the basis for a successful marriage.
"It seems reasonable for the state to treat the one type of relationship from which children can directly result in a different way to others, and this is the basis for marriage laws," says Paton.
So for now, I'll post something about how love and respect should be the basis for marriage, not gender.
