Pastoral Resources

Second, marriage is an issue that our Founding Fathers wisely left to the states.

Let me first state that I believe that marriage is a sacred union between one man and one woman.

No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy, nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority to ban child marriages.

Marriage has just never interested me.

While 45 of the 50 States have either a State constitutional amendment or a statute that preserves the current definition of marriage, left-wing activist judges and officials at the local levels have struck down State laws protecting marriage.

Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family.

And that is why marriage and family law has emphasized the importance of marriage as the foundation of family, addressing the needs of children in the most positive way.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

My mother, brave woman, lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the '60s. When the marriage fell apart, she had to come back to her family.

I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed.

What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.

I think the institution of marriage is a great idea, but for me it's just an idea.

I remember driving home one evening while they were reviewing the papers on the radio. One of the articles was about me separating from my wife. It's a weird thing to listen to a news report about the break-up of your marriage.

In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.

Sticking with a marriage. That's true grit, man.

I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific.

I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.

Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.

I do not support a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage.

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.