Hours after Portman announced that he had reversed his position on same-sex marriage, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said he would not second-guess him.
Many young Chinese, she notes, are giving up on the ideal of owning a house before marriage and starting their lives together as renters.
Other groups have stepped in to defend the laws banning gay marriage the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives for the Defense of Marriage Act and the private citizens who officially sponsored Proposition 8.
Legislation legalizing same-sex marriage narrowly passed the Delaware House on Tuesday and now heads to that state's Senate for consideration.
The nation's lower house approved a marriage bill, which would also give same-sex couples the right to adopt, in a 331-to-225 final vote.
Mr. Portman had opposed same-sex marriage while a lawmaker in the House and earlier in his career in the Senate.
His advocacy of same-sex marriage began well before his White House years, tracing back to his early political service in Illinois.
During 23 years of marriage he directed movies like Animal House and Trading Places while she established a career as a costume designer.
My reputation, my livelihood, my marriage, my family, my house.
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So a rich man may have to cough up lots of money (including from assets acquired before the marriage, or inherited) to house and support a wife, especially if she is looking after the children.
Only Massachusetts allows same-sex marriage, although six other states have allowed civil unions that are marriages in all but name, and a law allowing full marriage rights passed through the lower house of New York's state legislature on June 19th.
"I am a great supporter of marriage, " Cameron said in the House of Commons.
According to her testimony, he appeased her restless heart by holding out the prospect of a life together after the White House, musing about his marriage and whether he would be alone in three years.
She told me that she had cried for days when her oldest son, Tamerlan, told her that he wanted to move out, going against her culture's tradition of the son staying in the house with the mother until marriage.
Five months into marriage, we went from newlyweds to a house of five people.
Both David Cameron and Nick Clegg know that for all the talk of House of Lords reform or gay marriage, the reality of their problem is that the economy is not shifting and they've got to get it to move.
There are no such inhibitions in Canada, where this week the House of Commons voted to legalise gay marriage.
Critics who dismiss reform of the House of Lords or legislation for gay marriage as unpopular irrelevances have just been given fresh electoral ammunition.
"I can't think of another instance where that's happened, " said Justice Stephen Breyer, a liberal, referring to the House's intervention in the federal marriage law case.
If the justices decide that neither the Obama administration nor the House had reason to bring the federal marriage case before the high court, that would keep in place two lower-court rulings nullifying the law.
The House of Commons has voted to allow gay marriage in England and Wales, despite 161 MPs opposing the government's plans.
She intervened (and likely saved my marriage) when I wanted to buy that really cool house with the basement party room and built-in urinal.
The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill now goes before the House of Lords.
The Senate passed gay marriage legislation by a comfortable 26-12 margin, following a House vote of approval in January.
In New Hampshire, which has a distinctly conservative streak, the House of Representatives on March 26th voted to support gay marriage.
The outfit is currently part of a Marriage in the Movies exhibition at the National Museum of Costume at Shambellie House near Dumfries.
After the crash, Mr Lewis said he "lost a heck of a lot" after his marriage broke down, he lost his job and he had to sell his house.
Daniel, the defendant's son from a previous marriage, was living with his father and stepmother at the three-storey town house along with the couple's two daughters, aged eight and six, and Ms Jakubszyk's cousin.
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And 62% of adults believe that a marriage in which the husband and wife both have jobs and both take care of the house and children provides a more satisfying life than one in which the husband provides for the family and the wife takes care of the home.
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