11.   Recent polls have shown that a majority of voters still favor heterosexual marriage exclusively.

12.   That automatically makes one person of a heterosexual marriage a dependent, and means they pay no further cost to cover their children.

13.   The Georgia Baptist Convention meeting here Tuesday affirmed a statement of faith that opposes female pastors, sexual intimacy outside heterosexual marriage, abortion and racism.

14.   The measure would go a step further by adding a clause that says only heterosexual marriages can be valid and recognized by the state.

15.   The vote, he added, was a defense of heterosexual marriage as the only biblically sanctioned expression of human sexuality.

16.   This year the country became the first in the world to legalize euthanasia and to give same-sex marriages the status of heterosexual marriages.

17.   To suggest that heterosexual marriage was not the bastion of all that is good and sacred about sexuality was too radical a concept for most of the church.

18.   Under laws that went into effect last summer, after one year common-law unions of any gender combination have almost all the rights of heterosexual marriages.

19.   But in an interview with the British Broadcasting Corp. aired Sunday, Carey insisted heterosexual marriage or celibacy were the only options for Christians.

20.   Gay marriages are legal in Norway, with all the rights of heterosexual marriages except church weddings and the right to adopt.