Hedging their vows."Till death do us part." It sounds solemn sol·emn adj. 1. Deeply earnest, serious, and sober. 2. Somberly or gravely impressive. See Synonyms at serious. 3. Performed with full ceremony: a solemn High Mass. 4. and permanent--perhaps too permanent for some. Many couples are replacing this marital, promise-which dates from the 1500's--with something more realistic, say, "as long as our love shall last." Historically, most marriages, for better or for worse, did end in death. But not anymore. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. federal statistics, about half of those marrying today for the first time will wind up divorced. When Ulcca Joshi and Christopher Hansen married in 2001, they deliberately omitted any reference to the "till death" clause. "You can't promise at 25 that you're never going to change," says Hansen. The Rev. Calvin O. Butts Dr. Calvin O. Butts, III (1949 - ), is the Pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in the City of New York and President of The State University of New York College at Old Westbury. Dr. Butts is a native New Yorker. III, pastor of New York's Abyssinian Baptist Church The Abyssinian Baptist Church is among the most famous of the many churches in Harlem, New York City. The church traces its roots to 1808, when black parishioners left the First Baptist Church of New York in protest over racially segregated seating. , would disagree. When couples ask to replace the traditional, words with an escape clause, he tells them, "We want people, if they make this kind of commitment, to make it for life." |
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