Sentence examples for existing marriages from inspiring English sources

This church orchestrated and funded the campaign around proposition 8 in California which annulled existing marriages between lesbian and gay couples and prevented future marriages.

The position of the Eastern churches was made clear by the decrees of the Quinisext Council in 692: bishops must be celibate, but ordained priests, deacons, and subdeacons could continue in existing marriages.

Existing marriages of gay couples that took place overseas will also be legally recognised from Thursday.

Marriages per 1,000 people: We used Census data on the number of married people between the ages of 20 to 34 to determine whether or not a city had a high number of existing marriages.

Second, he'll apologize for signing a pledge to support a Constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage and nullify all existing marriages in states that recognize them.

Granted, while the "you're destroying marriage by changing its definition" arguments are often weak -- the advent of gay marriage hasn't destroyed existing marriages nor has it eroded marriage rates -- there is something to the spirit behind them.

The government is likely to consider a proposal later this week to amend the existing marriage laws in India.

Saskatchewan became the seventh Canadian jurusdiction to legalize same-sex marriage when a judge ruled that existing marriage laws discriminated against homosexuals.

It reaffirms, for example, that infertile couples who want to marry in order to adopt children have no place within existing marriage laws, as NR sees them.

The bill, which amended existing marriage legislation, was passed late on Thursday to formalise customary law about marrying more than one person.

It is hard to see how the marriage act's discrimination is presumptively invalid but not California's wiping out of existing marriage rights for gay people that were mandated by the state's top court.