Around the same time as the break-up with Warner, Winterson found some papers about her adoption by a devout Pentecostalist couple in the Lancashire town of Accrington half a century ago.
We spent quite a bit of time with a devout Muslim couple, originally from Canada, now living in Dubai.
Yet many church-married, monogamous, man-woman, devout Christian couples engage in acts once thought perversion.
As for those planets that devout Mormon couples might get after death, Jackson says that's a canard.
Do devout evangelicals crash couple-swapping parties?
The Romneys stood stiffly to the side, looking rather like a couple of devout Mormons who'd gotten off on the wrong floor and found themselves at a swingers' club.
The Jordanian couple, who are devout Muslims and not comfortable with the destruction of an embryo, decided to try mitochondrial spindle transfer instead, according to New Science.
The couple, Frances and Derek Baars, are devout Catholics and the children they were fostering were taken away in 2016 by the Children's Aid Society of Hamilton after a dispute with the agency.
He also said the couple, who are devout Christians, weren't concerned about how to reconcile their faith with their sexuality: "We get to choose who we love, and that includes God, and He loves us back".
In the South the prejudice endures, foolish but devout, that families headed by gay couples are harmful environments for children.
