Sentence examples for marriage restriction from inspiring English sources

This law, stipulated in the Child Marriage Restriction Act of 1929, has been ruled by the CII as non-compliant with Islamic laws.

It would involve the government arguing, as in Windsor, that the heightened-scrutiny test should be applied to Proposition 8, the logical extension of which is a rejection of Prop 8's marriage restriction, as its only justification is based on the weak rationale of custom or, worse, prejudice.

The basis for the marriage restriction that many put forward (although Miss California didn't even have the wherewithal to go this far) is that gay marriage constitutes a threat to religious freedom.

A couple of the women I spoke with retired as a result of the marriage restriction, and also due to the age restriction (typically 32-35 years old) that was then in place, and began their lives as wives and mothers.

In Oregon, gay-marriage proponents are collecting signatures for a ballot initiative that would end its marriage restrictions.

Meanwhile, marriage restrictions, as in the case of Anita Gindha, leave many young people no choice but to defy their elders.

National and state organizations fighting same-sex marriage have raised millions of dollars on the issue in recent years and won some major victories, including the unseating last fall of three Iowa Supreme Court justices who had ruled against marriage restrictions.

To prevent "the free propagation of the stock of those who are seriously afflicted by lunacy, feeble-mindedness, habitual criminality, and pauperism," he urged "stern compulsion," which might take the form of marriage restrictions or even sterilization.

The case is being defended by Pennsylvania's attorney general, Kathleen Kane, a Democrat, who last week refused to defend the state in a suit to overturn same-sex marriage restrictions, a decision that drew fire from Republican officials.

She will tell the Justices that marriage restrictions deny gay Americans their right to equal protection of the law and that such statutes also deprive them of a core liberty protected by the due-process clause of the Constitution.

A federal judge paved the way by ruling that marriage restrictions were unconstitutional.