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Same Sex Marriage in the Middle Ages
« on: May 12, 2012, 11:34:59 pm »
http://www.theawl.com/2012/05/sex-and-punishment

According to this book, same-sex unions almost identical to marriage (including the sexual element) were common, legal, and performed by the church in Europe until the 13th century.

Shoots yet another hole in the Christian right's narrative of the history of marriage.
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