Reply #86: Marriage as a religious rite is in the Torah, pre-Christ. Marriage describing legal status 1300 AD. [View All]

[Tigress DEM]

Marriage is an official church sacrament.

The joining of couples and sharing legal status the way we understand it and are trying to obtain equally for the GBLT community is very new. I'm sure you don't want the old definitions where one person is the property of the other.

Where the mistake was made happened in England where the church and the state were the same at the time, which was part of the reason our forefathers left "merry" olde England. Marriage as a word was used to describe something that combined cannon law and legal rights of settlement. AND at that time marrying women was basically a means to obtaining their dowry or inheritance.

It wasn't until the 16th century that we really began to get "love" as a concept and motivation for getting married. AND it took much longer for any equality to happen for both halves of a hetro couple.