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Topic: Monogamous marriage

	Monogamy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Socially monogamous species are scattered throughout the animal kingdom.
		A few insects are socially monogamous; a few fish are socially monogamous; a lot of birds are socially monogamous; and a few mammals are socially monogamous.
		Studies of couples in laboratories and studies of people in long-lasting marriages have identified several factors that contribute to the duration of monogamous relationships.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Monogamy (760 words)

	Saving Traditional Marriage: Why Gay-Marriage Is Actually A G...
		In some ancient cultures, the marriage specifics obligated a married man to give of himself sexually to one or all of his wives when the wife desires this of him (in other words, by religious civil law, he can't say no to her!).
		For gay marriage to be a reality and for poly marriages to be a reality, we need to culture ourselves in the following: One, it will only strengthen the institution of marriage for all males and females, regardless their orientation or the gender of their partner, to seek marriage.
		Marriage is a moral connected financial responsibility agreement, blessed by the religion and endorsed by the state.
	www.jtsef.com /AlternativeConservatism/_disc1/savingtraditionalmarriage.htm (2231 words)

	Origins of the Family. Chapter 2 (IV) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Monogamous marriage comes on the scene as the subjugation of the one sex by the other; it announces a struggle between the sexes unknown throughout the whole previous prehistoric period.
		Monogamous marriage was a great historical step forward; nevertheless, together with slavery and private wealth, it opens the period that has lasted until today in which every step forward is also relatively a step backward, in which prosperity and development for some is won through the misery and frustration of others.
		In the pairing marriage it was customary for the mothers to settle the marriages of their children; here, too, the decisive considerations are the new ties of kinship, which are to give the young pair a stronger position in the gens and tribe.
	www.marxists.org /archive/marx/works/1884/origin-family/ch02d.htm (7151 words)

	F A M I L Y F A C T S . C A (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		As the BC Supreme Court Judge indicated in his decision in a similar case, marriage is a deeply rooted social and legal institution.
		that marriage is a unique relationship that's definition as the union of a man and a woman remains unchanged even when benefits are extended to homosexual couples.
		Western civilization has supported and promoted monogamous heterosexual marriage because it has proven to be the best environment for raising children and proven essential to the success of democratic liberty.
	www.fotf.ca /familyfacts/analysis/110401.html (1547 words)

	Online Knowledge Explorer®/Encyclopedia Americana® (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In this sense marriage is a relationship between a woman and one or more persons that provides that any child she bears under the rules of the relationship will receive the status and rights common to other members of the society.
		Marriage between members of these family groups becomes in effect a contract, and the regulation of the marriage and the behavior of its partners is the continual concern of the extended family.
		A second type of marriage, coemptio, was observed by the plebeian classes and was in effect a marriage by purchase, whereby a bride was freed from her tutelage to male relatives.
	oke.grolier.com /InfoOffset=26094&FFC=F&OEMTag=DW&MajorVersion=14&EAID=0261660-00.ea (7966 words)

	Maine Marriage - Law Summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Before issuing a marriage license to a person who resides and intends to continue to reside outside the State, the clerk shall require affidavits or other evidence sufficient to satisfy the clerk that the person is not prohibited to marry by the laws of the jurisdiction in which that person resides.
		A marriage license may not be issued to persons under 18 years of age without the written consent of their parents, guardians or persons to whom a court has given custody.
		If the marriage was solemnized in a municipality other than the place or places where the parties to the marriage reside, that person shall return a copy of the certificate, or of either certificate if 2 were issued, to the clerk of the town where the marriage was solemnized.
	www.uslegalforms.com /lawdigest/marriagelaws.php/ME/ME-088M-FF.htm (3018 words)

	What does marriage mean? - Salon
		If gay marriage is legalized once and for all, not all gay married couples will choose to be monogamous, just as not all straight couples choose to be monogamous.
		Marriage may not transform gay men into models of monogamous behavior, but marriage and family life will nudge us in that direction, moving us toward durability and exclusivity.
		Human beings didn't evolve to be monogamous, and everything from divorce rates to recent impeachment proceedings prove, I think, that the expectation of lifelong monogamy places an incredible strain on a marriage.
	dir.salon.com /story/mwt/feature/2004/07/17/gay_marriage/index3.html (826 words)

	Gay Marriage vs. American Marriage by Kay S. Hymowitz, City Journal Summer 2004
		Advocates for gay marriage cite the historical evolution of that ideal—which we might call republican marriage—to bolster their case, arguing that gay unions are a natural extension of America's dedication to civil rights and to individual freedom.
		Given that marriage was originally a religious sacrament, the Founders understood that the institution retained, even in their secular republic, an element of spirituality, an assertion that man is something higher than the beasts and more than a merely material being.
		Marriage was becoming a minimalist institution; people now thought of it as an intimate relationship between two adults, having little to do with children and nothing to do with propagating the political and moral culture.
	www.city-journal.org /html/14_3_gay_marriage.html (4215 words)

	Beyond Gay Marriage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Marriage, Ettelbrick reminded her fellow activists, "has long been the focus of radical feminist revulsion." Encouraging gays to marry, said Ettelbrick, would only force gay "assimilation" to American norms, when the real object of the gay rights movement ought to be getting Americans to accept gay difference.
		In Hawkins's words, the proliferation of such arrangements "would turn marriage into the moral equivalent of a Social Security benefit." The effect would be to further diminish the sense that a woman ought to be married to the father of her children.
		Hawkins thinks gay marriages of convenience would be contracted in significant numbers--certainly enough to draw the attention of a media eager to tout such unions as the hip, postmodern marriages of the moment.
	www.weeklystandard.com /Content/Public/Articles/000/000/002/938xpsxy.asp?pg=2 (5807 words)

	Marriage Isn't A Recent Invention
		Essig's argument against marriage is the typical radical feminist view that was borrowed from Marxism -- marriage is an inherently oppressive social institution.
		But Essig really drops the ball when she bizarrely claims that "Monogamous, heterosexual marriages were an invention of the Industrial Revolution's emerging middle-class." This claim is so absurdly wrong that it's unbelievable the Salon editor's let it pass.
		Even in cultures where monogamous marriage was not the rule, some form of marriage institution is pretty much universal (anyone who disagree is more than welcome to name a single culture that had absolutely no marriage-like institution).
	www.equityfeminism.com /archives/years/2000/000019.html (409 words)

	Marriage and family life
		Monogamous marriage stands at the foundation of family life.
		Obtaining parental permission for marriage reaffirms the importance of the bond between child and parent.
		So-called "interracial marriage" is also encouraged in the Bahá'í teachings, which stress the essential oneness of the human race.
	www.safnet.com /bahai/mag/marriage.html (640 words)

	Marriage
		The play and emphasis is on the numerical "two" and "one." Marriage is monogamous and God was not pleased with polygamy, practiced subsequent to Genesis 2).
		Marriage is also for the producing and education of children (Gen. 1: 28).
		The truth stated in the Bible is the husband is the head, the wife is to be in subjection, and the children are to obey their parents in the Lord (Eph.
	www.bibletruths.net /Archives/BTAROO3.htm (1067 words)

	Hindutva Series : Hindu History - Monogamy (Dwanda Vivaha) and the Worship of the Mother Godesses
		Marriage is one institution that is looked upon as sacred and having existed from time immemorial.
		A marriage ceremony continues to be a tradition-bound one in an overwhelming number of cases.
		This assessment of marriage is more or less a factual one but it creates a wrong impression of marriage as having originated as a subjugation among the sexes.
	www.hindutva.org /practices3.html (5640 words)

	Althouse: Distinguishing gay marriage and polygamy -- part 2.
		I was thinking yesterday, “Marriage is really the only relationship in which you come to see and know and love another person a little bit the way God does — that is, as he or she is.” I don’t mean the word “love,” there, as a good feeling.
		The current definition of marriage should be subject to intermediate scrutiny based on gender discrimination because with respect to marrying a man, men are selectively (as opposed to women) disabled by the government.
		Marriage has begun to disappear among their members, replaced by the primacy of the single mom, an arrangement no serious scientist can claim is superior to traditional marriage.
	althouse.blogspot.com /2006/03/distinguishing-gay-marriage-and_23.html (11582 words)

	NC Patriarchal Christianity 5: Guidelines on Plural Marriage for Pastors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Though a plural marriage is "one marriage", in terms of the demands it places on a husband, it could perhaps be compared to many marriages all rolled into one.
		A selfish marriage, where the partners are devoting their time to pleasing each other instead of God, is not a true marriage in Christ, and will come to an end one day.
		The first years of plural marriage can be the worst for until one wife has crossed the veil into the firstborn and become a properly endowed matriarch -- freed of jealosy and the desire to possess -- the marriage will be an up-hill struggle.
	www.nccg.org /CPM005-Pastors.html (3491 words)

	General and supplementary provisions: Polygamous marriages
		For the purposes of part 9 of the SSCandB Act 1992 and the SSCandB (NI) Act 1992, a polygamous marriage is treated as having the same consequences as a monogamous marriage only for any day throughout which the polygamous marriage is in fact monogamous.
		A polygamous marriage is referred to as being in fact monogamous when neither party to it has any spouse additional to the other.
		The day on which a polygamous marriage is contracted, or on which it terminates is treated as a day throughout which that marriage was in fact monogamous if
	www.hmrc.gov.uk /manuals/cbtmanual/CBTM11020.htm (146 words)

	Same Sex Marriage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In his opinion, if you remove one leg of the marriage chair by changing the legal definition of marriage to allow the pairing of any two adults, you have compromised the stability of the institution of marriage.
		He also stated that there was no reason to consider same-sex marriage, since no one was being denied their rights currently.
		This is patently false and is based on the assumption that one must be married to engage in sexual activity, which is not the case in the real world.
	homepage.mac.com /dnix/iblog/C1549864246/E797226593 (826 words)

	VIOLATIONS OF MARRIAGE
		In their attempt to protect "the American family," fundamentalists are, in fact, destroying the institution of marriage.
		Lifelong, monogamous marriage is a relationship that many people are naturally drawn to.
		As long as only those who are drawn to Disneyland visit Disneyland, it is "the happiest place on earth." If, however, everyone were forced by law to visit Disneyland, then those who were not congenitally suited for Disneyland would—with their noticeable displeasure, rebellious acts, and disparaging comments—ruin it for those who wanted to be there.
	www.mcwilliams.com /books/aint/308.htm (1397 words)

	BPC Resolution: The Sanctity of Heterosexual, Monogamous Marriage
		WHEREAS: Heterosexual, monogamous marriage is deliberately patterned after the relationship between Christ and His Church (Ephesians 5:22-32), and to twist the institution of marriage to accommodate rebellious, perverse desires is to cast contempt upon God’s covenant, organic union with His bride;
		Heterosexual, monogamous marriage is the only sexual union sanctioned by the Creator (Hebrews 13:4); as such it is holy and undefiled.
		We call upon our civil government and all true churches to affirm with us the unassailable sanctity of heterosexual, monogamous marriage, and labor to protect ne another; and marriage by every appropriate means available to them.
	www.bpc.org /synod/2004/068_06.html (410 words)

	Monogamy Unnatural in the Natural World
		Barash said numerous recent studies have shown that many animals and birds, such as eagles, geese, beavers and gibbons, previously believed to be faithfully monogamous aren't.
		The authors contend that the sexes engage in infidelity for different reasons and that evidence for monogamy in human history is sketchy.
		Males tend to be opportunistic and have sex out of marriage because it is available and pleasurable.
	www.altpenis.com /penis_news/20020022002148data_trunc_sys.shtml (1036 words)

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		SMMS is a mailing list for straight people who are remaining (or are trying to) in a monogamous marriage with their gay or bi spouse.
		MMOM is a similar mailing list except that either (or both) spouses in a monogamous mixed orientation marriage are free to join.
		There is a lot of prejudice in our society against monogamous mixed orientation marriage.
	www.geocities.com /smmslist (127 words)

	NG BBS - Is monogamous marriage outdated?
		Posted: 4/17/04 12:45 PM I decided to post this new topic in response to a sub-argument that arose in the "Gay Marriage Rights" string that I found really interesting and wanted to pursue, but it didn't really fit into the other topic.
		And I DON'T think that denying people who have a genuine desire for multiple marriage partners the right to do so just because it is legally more "complicated" is a valid answer.
		Or that "monogamous marriage" has "always been the norm so why change it?" - that is denying anyone but heterosexual, serial monogamists the right to express their own sexual desire.
	www.newgrounds.com /bbs/topic.php?id=123035 (1608 words)

	Salon.com Life \| What does marriage mean? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Married life between a man and woman can follow many twists and turns.
		So why do gay marriages have to be so straight?
		We were having dinner at the house of some friends, a nice couple, around our age, good parents to three girls.
	archive.salon.com /mwt/feature/2004/07/17/gay_marriage/index3.html (317 words)

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		Defenders of stable monogomous marriage give offence to those living in new family forms and to those children who (even w/o assist repro) have 3 or 4 parents or none at all
		If accept divorce and out of wedlock birth, then stable monogamous marriage as ideal home for procreation is no longer agreed upon cultural norm
		If having children is possible only in monogamous marriage, this encourages such marriage
	www.cofc.edu /hettinger/Nature_Technology_Society_Fall05/Kass_Wisdom_of_Repugnance.htm (1465 words)

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