" One of his ex-wives reportedly said, " Marriage is Alan's way of saying goodbye.

Marriage here is symbolic of the covenantal relationship between God and Israel.

Marriage is not a sacrament of the Christian Science church, but the church's by-laws require a legal, religious ceremony for marriage: " If a Christian Scientist is to be married, the ceremony shall be performed by a clergyman who is legally authorized.

Hence, domestic and females employees working business are not concubines and sex is forbidden, unless Nikkah or Muta ( Temporary Marriage Only Permissible in Shi ' ism ) is committed with mutual consent.

Others are known only from mentions in Clement's own writings, including On Marriage and On Prophecy, although few are attested by other writers and it is difficult to separate works which he intended to write from those which were actually completed.

Marriage is a divine institution that can never be broken, even if the husband or wife legally divorce in the civil courts ; as long as they are both alive, the Church considers them bound together by God.

Marriage is intended to be a faithful, exclusive, lifelong union of a man and a woman.

Marriage is the only situation where any type of sexual interaction is acceptable, and even then certain restrictions apply to acts such as oral and anal sex.

Marriage is highly recommended but is stated to not be obligatory.

This ritual is an enactment of the mystical journey that culminates with the Mystic Marriage and the consumption of a Cake of Light and a goblet of wine ( a process termed " communication ").

Today the most renowned figure of late 18th century opera is Mozart, who began with opera seria but is most famous for his Italian comic operas, especially The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Così fan tutte, as well as The Magic Flute, a landmark in the German tradition.

In the East, Holy Baptism and Marriage ( which is called " Crowning ") may be performed only by a priest.

Fraternal polyandry is permitted in Sri Lanka under Kandyan Marriage law, often described using the euphemism eka-ge-kama ( literally " eating in one house ").

The History of Childhood, authored by ten scholars ( including deMause ), is often linked to Edward Shorter's The Making of the Modern Family and Lawrence Stone's The Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500-1800, because of the common ground they share in agreeing with a grim perspective of childhood history.

Marian did not immediately gain the unquestioned role ; in Robin Hood's Birth, Breeding, Valor, and Marriage, his sweetheart is ' Clorinda the Queen of the Shepherdesses '.

Marriage is mentioned in the Quran: nikah.

One of the first such episodes to depict this is " Secrets of a Successful Marriage " ( season five, 1994 ), where Homer starts teaching an adult education class on how to build a successful marriage.

Le nozze di Figaro, ossia la folle giornata ( The Marriage of Figaro, or The Day of Madness ), K. 492, is an opera buffa ( comic opera ) composed in 1786 in four acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with a libretto in Italian by Lorenzo Da Ponte, based on a stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, La folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro ( 1784 ).

During the same period he had also written The Revolutionary Epick and three burlesques, Ixion, The Infernal Marriage, and Popanilla.

It contained Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer, the Litany, and Holy Communion and also the occasional services in full: the orders for Baptism, Confirmation, Marriage, ' prayers to be said with the sick ' and a Funeral service.

She co-starred often with Swedish actor and fellow Bergman collaborator, Erland Josephson, with whom she made the 1973 Swedish television drama, Scenes from a Marriage, which was also edited to feature-film length and distributed theatrically.

" Christopher Barron, political director of the Log Cabin Republicans, a group representing gay and lesbian Republicans said: " We disagree strongly with the outing campaign, but we also strongly disagree with President Bush's sponsorship of the anti-family Federal Marriage Amendment.

Veronese also painted the breed into some of his other religious work, including The Marriage at Cana and The Finding of Moses.

Marriage to a commoner was not possible as it would cost Elizabeth not only her title, but also her property rights and her claim to the throne.

The game is derived from Piquet, possibly via Marriage ( Sixty-six ) and Briscan, with additional scoring features, notably the peculiar liaison of the Q and J that is also a feature of Pinochle, Binokel, and similarly named games that vary by country.

He also articulated his themes in the bourgeois milieu with his trilogy about women in post-fascist Germany: The Marriage of Maria Braun ( 1978 ), The Angst of Veronica Voss and Lola.

Catherine is very frequently depicted in art, especially in the late Middle Ages, which is also the time that the account of St. Catherine's Mystical Marriage makes its first literary appearance.

David had a cameo appearance on the HBO series Entourage as a client of Ari Gold, and also appeared as a panelist on the NBC series The Marriage Ref.

Celtic themes and motifs also appear in the tales Island of Women ( in which he travels to the Other-world ) and in an English romance entitled The Marriage of Syr Gawayne.

A government may also raise questions of rights by submitting reference questions to higher-level courts ; for example, Prime Minister Paul Martin's government approached the Supreme Court with Charter questions as well as federalism concerns in the case Re Same-Sex Marriage ( 2004 ).

The Federal Marriage Amendment ( FMA ) ( also referred to by proponents as the Marriage Protection Amendment ) was a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution which would have limited marriage in the United States to unions of one man and one woman.

Dr. Larry Nelson, one of the three Marriage, Family, and Human Development professors to perform the study, also noted that some Millennials are delaying the transition from childhood to adulthood as a response to mistakes made by their parents.

" and was immortalised in a detail of Plate II of William Hogarth's " A Rake's Progress " ( she may also appear in Plate IV of his series " Marriage à la mode " of 1745 ).

She also became a Diplomate of the Academy of Certified Social Workers and received the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy's Distinguished Service Award.

Wyden has also publicly announced support for same-sex marriage and was one of 14 Senators to vote against the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996.

He also wrote incidental music for John Dryden's Conquest of Granada and Marriage à la Mode, George Etheridge's The Man of Mode, Nathaniel Lee's Gloriana, and Thomas Shadwell's Epsom Wells.

Harris is also in favor of welfare reform, school vouchers, the Patriot Act, the Flag Desecration Amendment, the Federal Marriage Amendment, and the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

The Marriage Act of 1753 also did not apply to Britain's overseas colonies of the time, so common law marriages continued to be recognized in the future United States and Canada.

The Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act § 307 ( UMDA § 307 ) also allows for the equitable distribution of property and lists factors the court should consider, e. g. " the duration of the marriage, and prior marriage of either party, antenuptial agreement of the parties is the same as a prenuptial agreement or premarital agreement, the age, health, station, occupation, amount and sources of income, vocational skills, emplyability, estate, liabilities, and needs of each of the parties, custodials provisions ..." etc.

He succeeded also in Colman and Garrick's The Clandestine Marriage.

In January 2009, it was reported that Obama opposed a federal mandate for same-sex marriage, and also opposed the Defense of Marriage Act, stating that individual states should decide the issue.