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Wednesday 25 July 2007

Archive for July, 2007

Annulment Not ‘Catholic Divorce’

Wednesday 25 July 2007 @ 8:31 pm

It is important to understand that, just as God instituted marriage, so He created it to be a very specific institution. Marriage is a total self-donation of two persons. It is permanent, faithful and open to God’s gift of new life. If two people are standing up on the altar committing to something else, some alternative definition of marriage they’ve created in their heads, then what is happening that day is not a sacramental marriage. Likewise if they are not mature or emotionally healthy enough to understand that to which they are committing, or if one party or the other is withholding information that is “material” to the marriage decision, then we have reason to believe that no sacramental union is actually taking place.

Comments (0) | Posted in Marriage, divorce, religion

Divorce isn’t God’s way

Wednesday 25 July 2007 @ 8:29 pm

When a man took a wife and started a family, he didn’t do it just to prove his manhood or to show somebody he could, I believe he did it to share and strengthen his love in unified companionship. Love has to be a continuous flow; if love stops flowing, love will die.

Comments (0) | Posted in divorce

Anti-Gay-Marriage Group Zeroes in on Divorce Rate

Wednesday 25 July 2007 @ 8:28 pm

Proponents of same-sex unions often point to the astronomical rate of divorce among heterosexual married couples and suggest the anti-gay-marriage set go pick on statistics their own size. The traditional marriage camp, it seems, has accepted the dare.

Comments (0) | Posted in divorce, sex and metropolis

Man wins 30-year-old divorce payout appeal

Wednesday 25 July 2007 @ 8:26 pm

A wealthy retired builder has won his appeal over a court ruling that he must pay more money to the woman he divorced nearly 30 years ago. Dennis North, 70, was ordered last year to pay his first wife, Jean £202,000 by a family judge who heard she had “fallen on hard times” after embarking on a lifestyle she could not afford.

Comments (0) | Posted in Alimony, counterPULSE, divorce, sex and metropolis

Boys Face Sex Crimes Trial Over Slapping Charges

Wednesday 25 July 2007 @ 9:38 am

Two middle-school students in Oregon are facing possible time in a juvenile jail and could have to register as sex offenders for smacking girls on the rear end at school.

Comments (0) | Posted in crime + punishment, government, sex and metropolis, sex politics

Viagra abuse can be a real downer

Wednesday 25 July 2007 @ 9:30 am

London Times’ letters to the editor

Comments (0) | Posted in health

Celibacy teaching dropped by US states

Wednesday 25 July 2007 @ 9:28 am

For more than a decade, America’s campaigners for sexual abstinence have successfully preached that the best thing for teenagers is to stay celibate - and that the best thing for schools is to teach chastity and never mention condoms.

Comments (0) | Posted in government

My family wants me to divorce my British bride, says Bin Laden’s son

Wednesday 25 July 2007 @ 9:18 am

Osama Bin Laden’s son faces being disowned by his family following his marriage to a British grandmother.

Comments (0) | Posted in divorce

New commission aims to make a divorce harder to get

Wednesday 25 July 2007 @ 9:15 am

After campaigning successfully to forbid same-sex marriage in Virginia, The Family Foundation is now aiming to cut the state’s divorce rate.

Comments (0) | Posted in divorce

News they are fathers catches some men off guard

Wednesday 25 July 2007 @ 9:11 am

The boy was 12 years old, and the mother wanted retroactive child support going back to the day he was born. The total bill: $73,049 in back child support and reimbursement of medical and educational expenses. That was more than Robinson’s gross income for the previous two years. And it was in addition to the $400 a month in child support he began paying after he got the DNA results.

Comments (0) | Posted in child support