I'm just not sure where you're going with this I wasn't really going anywhere, just hanging some things out there to ponder.
Where I was coming from, though, is on smallship1's side of the pond, there was a time when the Church made the laws, and enforced them. The French and Spanish inquisitions, for instance. The whole reason there is a Church of England is a certain king got his shorts in a bind when Rome claimed legal power over him and his personal life. Talking with my cousins in England, there still seems to be a concept that when the Church speaks, the government listens. Part of the First Amendment's reason for being is the folks who led the revolution were in the colonies to get away from that.
What I meant about marriages is anyone who wants to marry anyone else should have that right, unrestricted by puritanical laws. "Anyone" is conveniently both singular and plural. :-)
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Date: 2009-02-21 06:57 pm (UTC)I wasn't really going anywhere, just hanging some things out there to ponder.
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What I meant about marriages is anyone who wants to marry anyone else should have that right, unrestricted by puritanical laws. "Anyone" is conveniently both singular and plural. :-)