Archive for October, 2007

JERSEY RESIDENTS STILL SPLIT ON GAY MARRIAGE (WBGO-FM Newark)

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

() - It’s been a year since the New Jersey Supreme Court ordered the state legislature to extend the legal rights of married couples to gay and lesbians, by way offering them civil unions. Has public opinion concerning gay marriage changed in the garden state since then?

National Center for Marriage Research to be located at BGSU (Newswise)

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Rapid changes in family structure in recent decades, including increases in the percentage of children born out of wedlock and the average age of first marriage, raise important questions about how these trends may impact the health and welfare of individuals, families and communities.

Lance Bass Reveals Secret Marriage (E! Online via Yahoo! News)

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Of all the members of ‘N Sync, who would have guessed that Lance Bass was the first to take the marital plunge.

MARRIAGE LICENSES (The Herald-Mail)

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

(9/27/07) - Marriage licenses for August more… (9/25/07) - Marriage licenses for August: more…

Casper man named in marriage fraud scheme (Casper Star-Tribune)

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

A Navy veteran from Casper participated in a marriage fraud scheme to collect housing benefits and enable an Eastern European woman to evade immigration laws, according to a federal indictment unsealed last week in Norfolk, Va.

Big Rich Star Retracts Offensive Gay Marriage Comments (ContactMusic)

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

BIG + RICH star JOHN RICH has apologised for his recent controversial comments on gay marriage, insisting his views were not properly clarified. The

Marriage Tune-Up (ThirdAge)

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Eliz Joyner is not a relationship expert, a marriage counselor or a therapist. She’s just a married woman who wanted to know what her husband was thinking.

November 11: The Sanctity of Marriage (Florida Baptist Witness)

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

What is the future of the family? Even secular analysts express alarm at the breakdown of the family in our culture. The Bible affirms marriage and family as God’s purposeful intention, yet even within the context of the church God’s purpose for marriage is often not realized.

Enter Spurs and Ramos – a marriage made in Hell (Times Online)

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica , Hallowe’en is traditionally believed to provide the most favourable opportunity in the calendar for divinations concerning marriage, luck and prosperity and is, indeed, the only day when the help of the gentleman downstairs can be invoked for such a purpose.

Chinese city bans “seductive” marriage ads (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

A northern Chinese city has banned the use of “seductive” words like “foxy lady,” “handsome guy” and “moneybags” in marriage advertisements in a bid to stamp out fraud, domestic media reported on Tuesday.