Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

Closing out "Marriage Protection Week" (as declared by President Bush), let's hear it for traditional ideas of marriage (uh, specifically Christian marriage, in this case):

"In Boswell's book, Same Sex-Unions in Premodern Europe, he lists Liturgies of Same Sex Unions which he had discovered in all of the centuries from the eighth through the seventeenth and he provided English translations of many. They were performed everywhere Greek was used as a Liturgical language which was at one time most of the world." -- John S. Morgan.

Morgan goes on to quote Boswell directly:

He states: "From the fourteenth century on, Western Europe was gripped by a rabid and obsessive negative preoccupation with homosexuality as the most horrible of sins." ... "The ceremony remained licit from the thirteenth century on, even in the eyes of the Roman Catholic Church, which probably failed to recognize its actual significance, although Montaigne seems to having seen it in Rome itself in 1578, and suggested that Roman ecclesiastics realized perfectly well what it entailed, even to the point of legimitizing homosexual activity."