[RonHolzwarth]

"the sacrament of marriage."???

Your Roman Catholicism is showing!

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

Most Protestants believe that sacraments are an "outward sign of an inward grace", or symbolic of what is taking place or has taken place invisibly. What Protestants consider to be a sacrament differs from the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox positions. Most Protestants consider only baptism and Communion, the usual Protestant term for the Eucharist, to be sacraments. They believe that the other five rites considered to be sacraments are not made sacraments by the New Testament; so while almost all Protestant churches have marriage ceremonies, and many have an ordained clergy and a ceremony conferring their version of holy orders, they do not consider these rites to be sacraments.

[TaxRelief]

Wikipedia is wrong (or shallow, as usual).

Marriage is (or recently was) considered a Sacrament and/or a Covenant in nearly every Christian Church. Though some Christian churches have recently changed their doctrines, this is only because they have caved into pressure from homosexual activists, abandoning their committment to scripture. Even the Unitarian Church referred to marriage as a sacrament until quite recently.

The Muslim religion and the Hindu religion also consider it a Sacrament.

Covenant, Sacrament, Solemn Vow,Solemn Oath- These are just semantic games used to distract from the issue at hand. The anti-family forces will use the differences in the traditional religions to destroy classic family structures and to get what they want.

[shrinkermd]

"Your Roman Catholicism is showing!

I am not a Roman Catholic; however, I fail to see the point. TaxRelief differs from your interpretation of the issue.