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Article #5477Re: What's the best purchase you've ever made and why ?
From: krw
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 00:38
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 00:38
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In article <Xns9AA3562CF6D36VeebleFetzer@127.0.0.1>, bert@iphouse.com says... > krw@att.bizzzzzzzzzz (krw) wrote in > news:MPG.229aa8816290b2a0989c28@news.individual.net: > > > In article <b41Yj.144424$Er2.48534@bignews6.bellsouth.net>, > > sanerthanyou@gmail.com says... > >> > >> "Bert Hyman" <bert@iphouse.com> wrote in message > >> news:Xns9AA2961EA386CVeebleFetzer@216.250.184.7... > >> > In news:lC%Xj.48458$3v1.17850@bignews3.bellsouth.net > >> > "beadsbyirene" <sanerthanyou@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > > >> >> 48 years ago, you had to purchase a license to live with someone > >> >> for the rest of your life. Living together without that license > >> >> was considered 'sin' in those days. > >> > > >> > Not quite. > >> > > >> > The churches required the ceremony, while the state required the > >> > license. > > > > Isn't at least a civil "ceremony" required? > > I just meant that the curches were the ones who invented the concept > of "living in sin", requiring their marriage ceremony to make the I suppose a few hundred years ago, but I've never heard the phrase used for people married in other religions or even by a JP (ship's captain, etc.). > marriage legit. The idea of a civil ceremony is a relatively recent > invention. Define "recent". -- Keith
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