They teach marriage prep courses, their children are altar servers … you get the idea.
And Oklahoma's governor, Frank Keating, also a Republican, has just unveiled a $10 million "marriage initiative" program, including a "scholar-in-residence" to do marriage research and train people to teach marriage classes at welfare, health department and even agricultural extension offices.
"Ultimately, how you treat a person that you care for and love is different from what your opinion is, or what your faith teaches marriage should be".
"In redefining marriage, the law would teach that marriage is fundamentally about adults' emotional unions, not bodily union or children," the scholars Robert P. George, Sherif Girgis and Ryan T. Anderson wrote in 2010, in an academic paper cited in one of the cases.
In marriage, for example, Christianity teaches that marriage is not merely a contract.
Although South Africa legalised same-sex marriage in 2006, the Anglican church in the country teaches that marriage is a union of a man and woman.
They argued that "redefining marriage" would force schools to "teach gay marriage" and require businesses and churches to violate their religious principles.
All participants described a prevailing culture of silence surrounding marital issues and expressed perceptions of marriage as endurance: We are taught that marriage is endurance.
I teach theology, marriage and sex at Villanova University.
It doesn't help the fact that [at home in the US] schools teach rubbish, marriage is breaking down, that society is [inaudible].
