Earlier this week Jay-Z, one of the most popular rappers of all time, unequivocally voiced his endorsement of Obama's decision to support gay marriage, framing it as a civil rights issue.
In the Oscar-winning drama A Separation, the Iranian director Asghar Farhadi painted a piercingly insightful picture of a failing marriage framed within the strictures of a rigidly regulated society – the personal and political intertwined, with painful consequences.
When Obama invoked Jesus to support same-sex marriage, framed health care as a moral imperative to care for "the least of these," and once urged people to read their Bible but just not literally, he was invoking another Christian tradition that once dominated American public life.
Same-sex marriage supporters frame the case as a vote for gay people to be happy because that is precisely what it is.(Photo credit: AFP).
That must have been why they decided to get their marriage certificate framed and to hang it up in the bedroom of their house.
But such a design generally suffers from a stilted ride, at least when compared with the SUVs that debuted after the M-Class, since those were made with unit-body (a marriage of chassis and frame) construction.
We wanted to take an ultramodern topic (marriage equality) and frame it in a universe of sitcom tropes.
Abbott, a staunch opponent of gay marriage, changed his framing of the issue during Wednesday's question time.
Gay-marriage opponents often frame the issue as if gay people are incapable of the same enduring love that they feel for their own spouses.
We gave them a place of honor in the living room, near the elegantly framed marriage license that had come, appropriately, on rainbow-tinted, luminescent paper.
