"*That* was an important part of marriage for hundreds of years, too." Reminds me of something I just read - apparently one of the first groups to suggest that marriage ought to be at the couple's own choice, without consideration of "birth or portion" was a radical communist group called the Diggers. The rest of society was just about as shocked, SHOCKED at the implications of marriage without a dowry or parental arrangements or consideration of relative social status as Mr. Bauer is at the idea of gay marriage.
Re: History of marriage
Reminds me of something I just read - apparently one of the first groups to suggest that marriage ought to be at the couple's own choice, without consideration of "birth or portion" was a radical communist group called the Diggers.
The rest of society was just about as shocked, SHOCKED at the implications of marriage without a dowry or parental arrangements or consideration of relative social status as Mr. Bauer is at the idea of gay marriage.