Sentence examples for bodily union from inspiring English sources
"In redefining marriage, the law would teach that marriage is fundamentally about adults' emotional unions, not bodily union or children," the scholars Robert P. George, Sherif Girgis and Ryan T. Anderson wrote in 2010, in an academic paper cited in one of the cases.
One obvious problem with such an argument is that George's definition of "organic bodily union" can be easily redefined as soon as one steps out of the bigoted and arbitrary theological suppositions that he makes.
Desperate to prove they are not bigots, conservatives argue that they wish to deny marriage to same-sex couples, but not infertile couples because, as George asserts, "Any act of organic bodily union can seal a marriage, whether or not it causes conception".
The letter says the church's traditional view of marriage is that it goes further than an emotional union and "involves a substantial bodily and spiritual union of a man and a woman" that is ordered "towards the generation and wellbeing of children".
The exercises used by the adept to achieve this union involve the purificatory practices, bodily postures, breathing, and meditation exercises that are common to other forms of Yoga.
(A fairly steamy inscription at Deir el-Bahri memorializes Amun's union with her mother, Queen Ahmose; he took the bodily form of Thutmose I, but certain beguiling odors gave him away).
As health officials continue to monitor passengers who flew on two planes with an Ebola-infected flier, a flight attendants union has urged its members to be extra cautious handling bodily fluids.
"Officer Mann reasonably felt a threat to his own life and, failing the ability to otherwise subdue the suspect and avoid the possible loss of his own life or significant bodily harm, Officer Mann used the only measure at his disposal — his gun," the union contended.
This Byzantine contemplative movement's form of prayer integrated repetitive formulas with bodily postures for the purpose of experiencing a state of inner peace and mystical union.
First, he contends that marriage is a uniquely "comprehensive" union, meaning that it is shared at several different levels at once — emotional, spiritual and bodily.
