Obama, an intelligent man steeped in civil-rights history, was never so disappointing as when he sat with Pastor Rick Warren, at a televised appearance in front of twenty-eight hundred evangelicals, and won applause for his declaration "that marriage is the union between a man and a woman.
While Charles Cooper, the lawyer on the anti-gay-marriage side, cited President Obama's declaration that marriage should only be between a man and a woman, Olson noted that Obama's parents could not have married in Virginia before he was born.
An annulment is a judicial declaration that a marriage never legally existed.
They took their fight to the High Court in 2006, when a judge refused to make a declaration that their marriage was valid in this country.
The five years between Anna's first declaration and her marriage leave no doubt that she and Cheng were seriously in love.
Now, it is possible that the Times is just being catty, implying something about the marriage – "Declaration of Independence", indeed – without having the goods or the guts to come right out and say it.
During the penalty phase of the trial, Bundy took advantage of an obscure Florida law providing that a marriage declaration in court, in the presence of a judge, constituted a legal marriage.
When the California Supreme Court declared it a right in 2008, Newsom promptly made himself the inadvertent star of the Yes on 8 TV ads with his notorious, braying declaration that gay marriage is inevitable in America, "Whether you like it or not".
Other couples will sign a covenant-marriage declaration of intent which, once filed at the courthouse in the county where they live, converts ordinary marriages into a deeper commitment.In 2001, Arkansas passed the Covenant Marriage Act.
