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The Southern Baptists Convention states that discouragement of divorces from pastoral leadership was the dominant view throughout the 19th to 20th C. [65] For instance, in 1964 the Christian Life Commission of the Baptist General Convention of Texas published a pamphlet in entitled "The Christian, The Church, and Divorce" which discouraged ...
Christian terminology and theological views of marriage vary by time period, by country, and by the different Christian denominations. Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christians consider marriage as a holy sacrament or sacred mystery , while Protestants consider marriage to be a sacred institution or "holy ordinance" of God .
The great majority of Christian denominations affirm that marriage is intended as a lifelong covenant, but vary in their response to its dissolubility through divorce. The Catholic Church treats all consummated sacramental marriages as permanent during the life of the spouses, and therefore does not allow remarriage after a divorce if the other spouse still lives and the marriage has not been ...
Amanda Tyler writes that thew Texas law that allows public schools to replace counselors with chaplains and to use funds earmarked for school safety and mental health to pay them is a betrayal of ...
Fourth Amendment rights and religious freedom were key arguments in the legal battle between the Texas AG and El Paso's Annunciation House.
Born in El Paso, Texas, Marcotte (rhymes with far-caught, according to her) [4] was raised in the small town of Alpine, Texas. [5] She has written that her parents divorced when she was nine years old. [6] She graduated summa cum laude from St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas with a degree in English literature. [5]
These have included the effects that marriage has on individual liberty, equality between the sexes, the relationship between marriage and violence, philosophical questions about how much control can a government have over its population, the amount of control a person has over another, the financial risk when measured against alternatives and ...
Similar conversations about the role of religion in schools have become prevalent in Texas. Last year, the Legislature passed a bill allowing schools to employ a chaplain as a counselor.