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[[Image:Bride and groom signing the book.jpg|thumb|350px]]
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{{cquote|''The man said, "This is now bone of my bones, And flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man." For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.<ref>[http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=gen%202:23-24&version=49 Genesis 2:23-24]</ref>''}}
{{cquote|''The man said, "This is now bone of my bones, And flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man." For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.<ref>[http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=gen%202:23-24&version=49 Genesis 2:23-24]</ref>''}}
'''Marriage''' is a union formed between one man and one woman, ordained by [[God]] and has been practiced as such by just about every culture across geographical locations and time.
'''Marriage''' is a union formed between one man and one woman, ordained by [[God]] and has been practiced as such by just about every culture across geographical locations and time. <ref> "Because there is a natural complementarity between men and women - sexual, emotional, temperamental, spiritual - marriage allows for a wholeness and a completeness that cannot be won in any other way. ([[Bill Bennett]], ''The Broken Hearth'', Page 197) </ref>
<ref> "Because there is a natural complementarity between men and women - sexual, emotional, temperamental, spiritual - marriage allows for a wholeness and a completeness that cannot be won in any other way. ([[Bill Bennett]], ''The Broken Hearth'', Page 197) </ref>
Marriage is intended to be a life-long commitment, under any circumstances. Frequently this involves a public commitment ceremony (a [[wedding]]) where vows are exchanged to each other and before God.
[[Dinesh D'Souza]] wrote:
[[Dinesh D'Souza]] wrote:
The unity between a man and a woman in marriage is a picture or analogy of the relationship that God desires to have with his creation. The first marriage occurred nearly 6,000 years ago in the [[Garden of Eden]], in the area of the world that we now know as the Ancient Near East. The first couple was Adam and Eve.
The unity between a man and a woman in marriage is a picture or analogy of the relationship that God desires to have with his creation. The first marriage occurred nearly 6,000 years ago in the [[Garden of Eden]], in the area of the world that we now know as the Ancient Near East. The first couple was Adam and Eve.
[[Bill Bennett]] wrote:
[[Bill Bennett]] wrote: