Same-Sex [common-law] Marriage has been around for a long time. It was, apparently, reasonably common among the good-Christian folk who founded this nation. Keep in mind, the founders routinely practiced "Common-Law" marriage -- you'd be hard pressed to find formal marriage certificates (as opposed to marriage contracts, which were also rare) for any of their marriages.
This relates that, even before the Virginia Colonies were created, European Same-Sex marriage had made it to America: "In the mid-16th century, Spanish conquistador Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca wrote about a custom of “one man married to another,” which he saw in several Gulf Coast communities."
According to Paul, Same-Sex marriage is effectively mandated as being a practice for good "Christians" whose bias is toward their own gender. Sex outside of marriage is anti-Christ regardless of gender -- thankfully, a problem which does not apply to Hebrews (to even debate that point, according to Paul, is absolutely forbidden and would preclude a Gentile from being deemed a Christian). Ah the delights of "SAINT PAUL'S JOKE: 'The Punch Line's A Killer'" [amazon.com/Saint-Pauls-Joke-Punch-Killer/dp/1469953919]
Guess the Tea Party &Conservative Republicans loves being backed by anti-Christs.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/…/the-improbable-story-of-one…
The grave of two ladies, both born with the Birth of this American Nation, who were ‘married’ for 44 years. One, Charity Bryant – who provided the male role in the relationship -- was aunt to the famous poet and journalist, William Cullen Bryant.
Of his “aunts”, Bryant wrote: “If I were permitted to draw the veil of private life, I would briefly give you the singular, and to me interesting, story of two maiden ladies who dwell in this valley. I would tell you how, in their youthful days, they took each other as companions for life, and how this union, no less sacred to them than the tie of marriage, has subsisted, in uninterrupted harmony, for more than forty years.
…they have shared each other’s occupations and pleasures and works of charity while in health, and watched over each other in sickness…I could tell you how they slept on the same pillow and had a common purse, and adopted each other’s relations…
…one of them, more enterprising and spirited than the other, might be said to represent the male head of the family, and took upon herself their transactions with the world without, until at length her health failed, and she was tended by her gentle companion, as a fond wife tends her invalid husband.
I would speak of the friendly relations which their neighbors, people of kind hearts and simple manners, seem to take pleasure in bestowing upon them; but I have already said more than I fear they will forgive me for if this should ever meet their eyes, and I must leave the subject.”
Silhouetted portraits of the married ladies, Charity Bryant and Sylvia Drake.
If truth be told: The Republican Party stands firmly AGAINST marriage and family. The latter being evident in their deep rooted desire to destroy and separate American citizens from their immigrant parents (and their spouses too).
To affect THE MOST HARM TO MOST PEOPLE defines every aspect of the Right-wing Republican agenda.
Ultimately the Right-wing Republican agenda seeks to destroy the nation – first fiscally, then medically, and finally militarily (by opening America to the hatred of all peoples of all nations and inviting attack on a military which receives too much money for projects of no military value, and not enough for the basics: care for military personnel, current and former; along with than, a denial of weapons and deployments which foster territorial security).
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