How To Use Civil marriage In A Sentence
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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).
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In Switzerland, where Catholics and Protestants had long been at odds, most of the Swiss cantons introduced civil marriage.
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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
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Two years later, the government introduced another measure legalizing civil marriage.
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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.
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In addition, calls for civil marriage laws have become ever more forceful with current confessional-based laws permitting only religious matrimonies inside Lebanon.
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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
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Last month, we enacted legislation to allow civil marriage ceremonies for domestic partners in San Francisco.
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It is pro-family, uniting those gay family members with their siblings and parents in the unifying ritual of civil marriage.
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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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‘The dissimilitude between the terms ‘civil marriage’ and ‘civil union’ is not innocuous: it is a considered choice of language that reflects a demonstrable assigning of same-sex, largely homosexual couples to second-class status.
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As lobola, which is often paid in livestock, does not form the basis for a civil marriage, family law is not applicable in these marriages, but now a new law aims to improve the position of black women.
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The Church of England still does not sanction remarriage of divorcees - i.e. they cannot be remarried using the full religious rite, though their civil marriages can be blessed by the church, and they can be admitted to communion.
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Civil marriage shall be defined in each state by the legislature or the citizens thereof.
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Most had a nikah in addition to their civil marriage licenses, but some had only a nikah, which is not recognized in either the U.S. or Canada as a binding basis for civil marriage.
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The county clerk has traditionally performed civil marriages.
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The term more familiar to most Indians for a marriage solemnised by a civil or government official, without any religious ceremony, would perhaps be civil marriage.
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Thus, Massachusetts will now take the lead among states as the only one to grant the right of civil marriage to same-sex couples.
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The court said that a statute limiting the civil marriage to one between a man and a woman violated Iowa's constitution and must be declared void.
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Canada introduces the Civil Marriage Act, making Canada the fourth country to sanction same-sex marriage .
