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civil marriage

NOUN
  1. a marriage performed by a government official rather than by a clergyman

How To Use civil marriage In A Sentence

  • Polygyny is legal, and couples have the option of choosing between monogamy and polygyny when they enter into a civil marriage (although this is not necessarily binding).
  • In Switzerland, where Catholics and Protestants had long been at odds, most of the Swiss cantons introduced civil marriage.
  • Would you be O.K. with treating them as on a par with my wholly civil marriage, performed by a Justice of the Peace in a restaurant? Solutions for Homosexual Christians
  • Two years later, the government introduced another measure legalizing civil marriage.
  • Thus, the sole conceivable avenue by which exclusion of gay and lesbian people from civil marriage could promote more procreation is if the unavailability of civil marriage for same-sex partners caused homosexual individuals to “become” heterosexual in order to procreate within the present traditional institution of civil marriage. Archive 2009-11-01
  • In addition, calls for civil marriage laws have become ever more forceful with current confessional-based laws permitting only religious matrimonies inside Lebanon. The Daily Star > News Feed
  • Under the city's current marriage law, civil marriages can only be performed by a judge or by a court-appointed 'officiant' that almost always performs marriages at the D.C. Superior Court. DeMorning DeBonis: Oct. 1, 2010
  • Last month, we enacted legislation to allow civil marriage ceremonies for domestic partners in San Francisco.
  • It is pro-family, uniting those gay family members with their siblings and parents in the unifying ritual of civil marriage.
  • The queen's cousin, Prince Michael of Kent, married in a civil ceremony in Vienna, but no member of the royal family has ever contracted a civil marriage in Britain.
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