In this paper, I would like to assess some expert's opinion on different issues like definition of marriage, effect of gay-marriage legalization on family life, religious and legal views on legalization on gay marriage when they represents different belief or ideology. ... Effect on Family life : Although all these authors uses their definitions of marriage to support their views on gay marriage, some like Charles Colson or Charlene Gomes are more concerned about the social implication such as effect of legalization of gay marriage on family life. ... He further emphasizes that marriage...

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The way you live your personal life is your choice, not the choice of the government or society. ... In their Constitution, Article I, Section 5, reads: "No persons shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, nor be denied the equal protection of the laws, not be denied the enjoyment of the person's civil rights or be discriminated against in the exercise thereof because of race, religion, sex or ancestry." ... The unalienable rights to Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness are guaranteed to the citizens of the United States. ... Marriage benefits wou...

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The Catechism describes sexuality as "Affecting all aspects of the human person in the unity of his body and soul." ... The virtue of chastity involves the integrity of the person and the integrality of the gift. ... In my opinion, I think rape is the worst possible moral action a person can commit. Not only does is brake several different rules stated by the catechism, it can also destroy a persons life and their emotions. ... Homosexuality refers to relations between men or between women who experience an exclusive or predominant sexual attraction towards persons of the same sex. ...

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I believe that the initiator has to be taken in a non-normative way as in the person who made the divorce an option should be considered the initiator. ... In my opinion the way to fix Jake and Jane relationship or Jake and Agnes' marriage would be to work on Jake as a person, he would need to learn what it means to be committed to another person. I believe that Jane would need to learn how to better-let people in other than Jake, she easily lets Jake waltz back into her life. ... Being a person whose parents are still together, it is sometimes difficult to understand the total affect tha...

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When you can be yourself with that person and there not be any uncomfortable moments then that relationship is more likely to last. ... But what people do not understand is that that is the movies and not real life, a relationship is more than just intimacy and infatuation with another, it is being able to spend time with the other person and be who you really are with that person. If you can not have an intelligent conversation with that person and be able to express your opinion without starting an argument, then it will not work out in the long run. ... If you are now thinking whether or n...

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Each person has his/her own definition of happiness and what a normal marriage is. ... The National Library of Medicine scientific research publications confirm that sexual orientation is something a person is born with, it's immutable, it is not contagious or learned, it has no relation to a person's ability to form a deep relationship, to be a parent, to work or contribute to society (O'Hanlan). ... The report also stated that trying to change a person's sexual orientation would cause harm, including anxiety, depression and loss of sexual feelings (Glassgold). How would...

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Marriage today is considered to be a free community of persons rather than an institution of the human society for the benefit of the society (Cooke 53). ... Not everyone is supposed to get married and no event, person or circumstance must be pressuring them to marry at some given time. ... Persons trapped by some addictions are unable to be free enough to covenant a sacramental marriage. ... Because it is very hard to stay with one person for the rest of your life in a weak and non-sacramental marriage, people tend to break away from marriage and sometimes try to find different partners. ...

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Having one person to help combat the ups and downs of life is seemingly an ideal situation for most people, however more and more people are making the decision to not marry.  ... As he concluded: "They are driving the social renaissance of modern urban life.... Cathy Liu of Michigan State University, conducted a national study of the links between a healthy marriage and a healthy person. ... Advocates for marriage have found links between marriage and life expectancy, however what they fail to realize is the additional stress that is assumed when a person becomes legally bound to anoth...

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Augustine (354-430 AD), whose confessions tell the story of his early life and conversion to Christianity (2001). ... Written in the third person, Margery often refers to herself as "this creature," which can be seen as simple humility. ... She makes the decision to devote her life to holiness, surrounding her life around Jesus and the contemplation of God. ... Seen in this particular light, certain elements of a story such as hers which might seem important-a person's name, for example, or the description of a landscape-can be left out if they do not help the reader toward th...

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A woman is considered to be a successful person if her ambition to get married and have a happy family are fulfilled. ... A diligent and self-disciplined person can never miss the opportunity to succeed continuously because these traits will always breed success. ... Honesty is being truthful in all our life endeavors. ... I'm exhausted, I don't want (this) life (of deceit) anymore" (385). ... The good life is a happy one filled with peace....

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According to Pennsylvania State Legislation, Title 23 of Domestic Relations, the decree of termination will award custody of the child to the agency or the person consenting to accept custody (under 23 Pa.C.S.A. ... Section 2521 of Title 23 states that an agency or person receiving custody of a child is required by the state to stand in loco parentis (in place of the parent) to the child. Persons that stand in loco parentis maintain authority, to consent to major medical, psychiatric and surgical treatment; permission to enlist in the armed forces, etc., taking on the responsibility in regards...

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Some people believe that family relationship and family life are outdated by now, is that true? ... Family contains several relationships all of which represent a unique way of living together, that is, a person has to act in different roles. ... Many of us would possibly have experienced violence, pain, suffering and hurt in our family life; there are no such perfect families. ... Maintaining a good family membership is important to the positive growth(either in the way of being moral or mature or anything that help form a good person) of individuals within the families, to families themselve...

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In arrange marriages, who we marry frequently have characteristics similar to us in race, religion, class, background and age, meaning they might not be all that different from the person that your mother would have picked for you."" ... Willoughby, an assistant professor in the School of Family Life at Brigham Young University, attributes the stability of relationships to the fact that "arranged marriages start cold, heat up and boil over as the couple grows. ... When a premium is placed on passionate love, its easy to lose objectivity, leading to unrealistic expectations of marriage and of...

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Arguments both for and against same-sex marriage vary widely from person to person, but I believe same-sex marriage potentially benefits the American population in a multitude of ways. ... "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness" (Jefferson 327). ... According to The Declaration of Independence, everyone has certain unalienable right such as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness which same-sex is under the ca...

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Having almost no life of her own to be occupied with, Mrs Malaprop continues to live her life entangled and constantly interfering in her niece's, leading her to be described as "the old harridan." Much of the play happens to revolve around Lydia's constantly eventful love life, of which Mrs Malaprop is always involved. ... Despite her infuriating behaviour, we are engaged to feel sympathy for the middle-aged widow who's love life is non-existent to such a degree that she is forced to seek solace possessing an unhealthy interference in her niece's romantic situation. We...

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When Armand accuses her of being black, she is confounded, reduced to a "silent, white and motionless"person . ... Though her emotional distress over her husband's accusation could've been understandable, her decision to take both her life and the life of her baby was irrational. ...

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Parents become models for crucial aspects of life. ... Lessons about life are being taught when a parent has an affair, or when parents constantly argue or become violent towards each other. ... Many against my proposal would argue the Fourteenth Amendment right in that the United States, "nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property" (Fourteenth Amendment). ... As a child growing up in a broken and unstable home I can attest to the damages it does to a person, and just like abuse, it is a never ending life cycle. ...

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Through his writings, she depicted what family life was like. ... The personal experiences of a real person are always better than those of a character in a novel because the situations are real, and therefore more reliable. ... When a person would come to live in the household, he or she would quickly be referred to as being among "the family at home." ... The contract for marriage was life-long, and formal, and for the most part indissoluble. The apprentice's contract was formal as well, but not life-long in any sense. ...

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Denying someone the right to marry whomever they want is really obscured to me because that is basically telling the person that you cannot love whomever you want, you can only love a certain type of person. ... Whereas numerous people grew up believing that same sex families is not the normal and ideal life. ... On a indirect level, marriage provides a legal framework for family life that promotes interdependence and enhances economic efficiency for couples and families. ... " Although, there will always be two different opinions on homosexual marriage, it is up to each person to dec...

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One of the main aspects of Silas" life is his life as a communal member of the village of Raveloe. Much of the dramatic force in the novel is focused on his social life as a whole. ... Silas Marner needed more than a person to become stable, therefore he gained the communty's help to identify himself from his inner-soul. In the novel, Silas Marner appears to be distinct from society and his major change in life occurred when he lost everything but his monetary collection of guineas. One day his guineas were substituted by a small individual, which appeared in his life. ...

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Whether she was a convict and already a resident of the new colony, or if she was a free woman immigrant trying to make a new start, if she survived the journey a woman could not even dream of a comfortable life in the harsh and unforgiving environment they were settling. ... Whilst the government passages lured the women with images of colonial prosperity and the possibility of marriage and a new start, the reality was that life in the colonies was hard, and every morsel had to be eked out of an environment that wasn't ready to release its own stranglehold on the life it knew. ... Certai...

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With the struggle of trying to organize a major life decisions, it's often difficult for a couple to maintain a family-life balance. ... " "Imagine being scared of the person you're sleeping next to." ... Sociologists define socialization as "the social learning a person goes through to come a capable, functioning member of society" (McDaniel and Tepperman 2011:170). ... While this ideal isn't intended to be a negative, it's obstructing Toula's efforts in using the life course approach. The life course approach "follows the variety of social an...

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A person's identity is often determined by outside factors whether it is environment, rebellion, belief, or freedom of choice. ... Jayanthi, "the bad girl," spent years of her life "rebelling against her family.... Alicia's background played a huge role on relationships in her life. ... There is an issue here that has been a repetitive theme in Alicia's life, that as men get close to her they begin to discomfort her. ... Many of the things discussed with her patients lead to prove theories that identity is a causation of actions throughout one's life. ...

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It is still an essential piece of growing up and an objective in life to be hitched and have kids and so forth. It is constantly portrayed as every young person's fantasy to be hitched, potentially to a ruler, however despite everything it stands is still a yearning in life. ... Just because of this reason the level of people's understanding to other people's lives and their daily habits or cultural facts may be differ from each country and the debate about this topic may be emerged in every single moment of daily life. ... They will meet all requirements for all the profits of...

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Today's average person lives significantly longer lives than their counterparts of several decades ago. Because of this longevity, these people have more opportunity to explore and learn more about themselves, finish college or graduate school or even just travel and experience life. ... It has become accepted that a person can be a good provider, a good parent or a good mate without having a piece of paper to legitimize their relationship. ...

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