Editing Christian views on marriage (section)

=== Non-Trinitarian denominations ===

[[File:Phil and Marlene.jpg|thumb|left|175px|A [[Celestial Marriage]] must be performed in an [[Temple (LDS Church)|LDS temple]].]]

==== The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ====
{{See also|Marriage in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|Mormonism and polygamy}}
In the teachings of [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] (LDS Church), [[celestial marriage|celestial (or eternal) marriage]] is a [[Covenant (Latter Day Saints)|covenant]] between a man, a woman, and [[God in Mormonism|God]] performed by a [[priesthood (Mormonism)|priesthood]] authority in a [[Temple (LDS Church)|temple]] of the church.<ref name = gospelprinciples/> Celestial marriage is intended to continue forever into the [[afterlife]] if the man and woman do not break their covenants.<ref name = gospelprinciples>[https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-principles/chapter-38-eternal-marriage "Chapter 38: Eternal Marriage"], ''[[Gospel Principles]]'' (Salt Lake City, Utah: LDS Church, 2011).</ref> Thus, eternally married couples are often referred to as being "[[Sealing (Mormonism)|sealed]]" to each other. Sealed couples who keep their covenants are also promised to have their posterity sealed to them in the afterlife.<ref name = gospelprinciples/> (Thus, "families are forever" is a common phrase in the LDS Church.) A celestial marriage is considered a requirement for [[exaltation (Latter Day Saints)|exaltation]].<ref name = gospelprinciples/>

In some countries, celestial marriages can be recognized as civil marriages; in other cases, couples are civilly married outside of the temple and are later sealed in a celestial marriage.<ref>''[[Handbook (LDS Church)|Handbook 1: Stake Presidents and Bishops]]'' (Salt Lake City, Utah: LDS Church, 2010) § 3.5.</ref> (The church will no longer perform a celestial marriage for a couple unless they are first or simultaneously legally married.) The church encourages its members to be in good standing with it so that they may marry or be sealed in the temple. A celestial marriage is not annulled by a civil divorce: a "cancellation of a sealing" may be granted, but only by the [[First Presidency (LDS Church)|First Presidency]], the highest authority in the church. Civil divorce and marriage outside the temple carries somewhat of a stigma in the Mormon culture; the church teaches that the "gospel of Jesus Christ—including repentance, forgiveness, integrity, and love—provides the remedy for conflict in marriage."<ref>[https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/topics/divorce "Gospel Topics: Divorce"], churchofjesuschrist.org.</ref> Regarding marriage and divorce, the church instructs its leaders: "No priesthood officer is to counsel a person whom to marry. Nor should he counsel a person to divorce his or her spouse. Those decisions must originate and remain with the individual. When a marriage ends in divorce, or if a husband and wife separate, they should always receive counseling from Church leaders."<ref>''[[Handbook (LDS Church)|Handbook 1: Stake Presidents and Bishops]]'' (Salt Lake City, Utah: LDS Church, 2010) § 7.2.5.</ref>

In church temples, members of the LDS Church perform vicarious celestial marriages for deceased couples who were legally married.

==== New Church (or Swedenborgian Church) ====

[[The New Church]] teaches that marital love (or "conjugial love") is "the precious jewel of human life and the repository of the Christian religion" because the love shared between a husband and a wife is the source of all peace and joy.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://newchristianbiblestudy.org/exposition/translation/conjugial-love-rogers/contents/4570| title = Conjugial Love 457}}</ref> [[Emanuel Swedenborg]] coined the term "conjugial" (rather than the more usual adjective in reference to marital union, "conjugal"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://newchristianbiblestudy.org/exposition/translation/conjugial-love-rogers/contents/980|title=Conjugial Love 98}}</ref><ref name="Dictionary.reference.com">{{cite web|url=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/conjugial |title=Conjugial &#124; Define Conjugial at Dictionary.com |publisher=Dictionary.reference.com |access-date=10 October 2013}}</ref>) to describe the special love experienced by married partners.<ref>Swedenborg, E. ''[https://newchristianbiblestudy.org/exposition/translation/conjugial-love-rogers/contents/10 Conjugial Love]''</ref><ref name="Dictionary.reference.com"/> When a husband and wife work together to build their marriage on earth, that marriage continues after the deaths of their bodies and they live as [[angels]] in [[heaven]] into eternity. Swedenborg claimed to have spoken with angelic couples who had been married for thousands of years.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://smallcanonsearch.com/read.php?book=ml&section=42 |title=ML 42 - Small Canon Search - Reading - The Word of God, The Whole Word of God, and Nothing But the Word of God - Searching the Second Advent Christian Bible - The Second Advent Christian Canon of Scripture |publisher=Small Canon Search |access-date=10 October 2013}}</ref> Those who never married in the natural world will, if they wish, find a spouse in heaven.<!-- please insert other denominational views here -->

==== Jehovah's Witnesses ====
The [[Jehovah's Witnesses]] view marriage to be a permanent arrangement with the only possible exception being adultery. Divorce is strongly discouraged even when adultery is committed<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.reference.com/world-view/things-jehovah-s-witnesses-believe-marriage-efe80a14d1d56e08|title=What Are Some Things That Jehovah's Witnesses Believe About Marriage?}}</ref> since the wronged spouse is free to forgive the unfaithful one. There are provisions for a domestic separation in the event of "failure to provide for one's household" and domestic violence, or spiritual resistance on the part of a partner. Even in such situations though divorce would be considered grounds for loss of privileges in the congregation. Remarrying after death or a proper divorce is permitted. Marriage is the only situation where any type of sexual interaction is acceptable, and even then certain restrictions apply to acts such as oral and anal sex.{{Citation needed|date=August 2015}} Married persons who are known to commit such acts may in fact lose privileges in the congregation as they are supposed to be setting a good example to the congregation.<ref>[[The Watchtower]] September 15, 2006, March 15, 1983, November 1, 2008</ref>