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The True price of Religious Freedom
Proposition 8 (Amending the California state constitution to make same sex marriage illegal) was touted as preserving Religious Freedom. Can anyone be truly free unless Everyone is free? |
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Portrait of an Indian bride/bridegroom
Some three or four hundred years back, a marriage in India was solemnized at a very early age. Possibly the girl was five and the boy seven or eight. The concerned mothers told their offspring at an age of understanding as to who she/had been married to. |
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Celebrity Divorce Virus -- Is it Catching?
The celebrities that Get married on TV always want to get divorced in private. Why do the rich and famous insist on living their lives completely opposite of the rest of us? |
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The ancient institution of marriage is at peril
Since the State of Massachusetts legalized same-sex marriages, there have been several attempts to follow suit and even to expand the idea in other jurisdictions. Court cases in other states have sought to legalize the union of same-sex couples and some even of three persons, two of which were of the same sex. |
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Here is my thought about it all
Here's how I think the administrators in the Victor Valley High Schools got the parents to NOT think about the race riots. This is just my opinion, I could be wrong... |
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Gay Marriage And Politics
What is the basis of such fear and hostility toward men and women who simply prefer their own gender for sex? |
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Gay Marriage and the Politics of Division
As in the United States, Australians are embroiled in a debate over the rights of gays to marry.Unfortunately the debate - as is also the case in the U.S. - is politically motivated with the... |
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A New Trend?
Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher are pass now. Yes, shes still gorgeous. Yes, hes still just too damn cute. Yes, theyre still together, even after all the hoopla and the bets on how many weeks (or hours) they would last.
Demi is widening a trend, started by Cher, Susan Sarandon, Joan Collins Mrs Robinson? Catherine the Great?
But just people like you and I making the change? And why? Lets look at the statistics
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Kissing Or Marrying Cousins?
True story: my mother has friends that, by osmosis, are my friends also, who are kissing cousins. No, theyre not stereotypical American hillbillies or poor white trash or Dixie good ol backward wife-beating two-dimensional lower-class sharecroppers". Theyre the most intelligent and sweetest couple you ever want to meet. They went to college. Theyre upper-class. Theyre very demure and reserved, and they dont understand the stigma of marrying one's cousin. Incest is to have sexual relations with your brother or sister, father or mother, aunt or uncle, step-children or foster-children. That would be al-maharim (forbidden for marriage) and haraam (prohibited in Islam).
You see, they are Muslim. They live in Saudi Arabia. When I heard that they were first cousins, I was a bit uneasy. Was that the reason why their sixth and last child was retarded? Was that the reason why they looked so similar? After all, the judgment hadnt come back completely about incest
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Career or Children -- Decide!
I admit, I gave into the propaganda that I could have it all: I could have my two point five children, an exciting career, a steamy night life and even sleep every once in a while. You know: I can bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan;" I am woman, hear me roar," etc. |
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Careers or Children - Why Decide?
Have you ever thought about putting off a career to have children? Why would you, when you can do both and enjoy your life so much more? |
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Three wives and a Score of children, the African way ...
Imagine having several women you are required to call "Mother," not because they gave birth to you, but because each is your fathers wife. According to the African tradition of polygamy, this makes every one of them your mother. |
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Bush Opposes Same Sex Marriage
Gay Marriage? Well, George W. Bush has spoken. He firmly opposes same-sex marriage. Honestly, we could see that coming a mile away: broadminded he is not, no matter what we might debate about his intelligence or sense of morality.
The debate escalated when the Supreme Courts made more decisions in February. Another state Massachusetts ruled that same-sex couples have full marriage rights. Texas banned anti-sodomy laws, reversing the ruling from seventeen ago when homosexuals (and any other couple) took part in deviant sex. San Franciscos mayor Newsom decided to start giving marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples.
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For Better, For Worse, For Richer, For Poorer
What are they looking for in a partner? The conversation with one of my friends reveals the truth.
Last week Ive got a phone call from a friend of mine, Catherine (the name has been changed), my long time girlfriend I havent seen for a year. Weve met the next day, and soon as we got over the excitement of seeing each other, she guided me to a small and cozy restaurant in the beautiful downtown. After a short newsflash on our current lives, we continued chatting about usual stuff people talk after not seeing each other for a long period of time.
Suddenly, somewhere in between my first sip of latte and a bite of desert, Ive heard something I was completely unprepared for: Im so tired of dating, Alyona. I want to get married.
Let me give you a short overview of what kind of person my dear friend Catherine is.
She is a successful lawyer and co-founder of a well-established logistic company, which is quite an achievement taking into consideration that she is only approaching her 34th birthday this year. She is cute, fit, groomed, perpetually tan, stylish, likes to travel and a good company as well, learning Italian and taking guitar classes. The only problem is, as Catherine followed her astonishing confession, she can not find the right man. She has dates, she has friends, and she meets a lot of people through her job. But, as Catherine explained: It seems like all the good men are married! And I almost have no single friends. I have some divorced friends, though. But they are either tired of the whole marriage idea, or looking for a reliable partner themselves.
I couldnt believe my ears. My friend is the very icon of todays successful businesswoman who has it all. But, as she claims, more and more women find themselves in Catherines position: busy with their careers, one day they find their thoughts far away from the next investors meeting agenda. And if the regularly maintained pension plans and savings give us assurance in our financial future, where is no way to make sure, if that future will be warmed with much desirable family bonds. |
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