[ninenot]

Gregory VII had to reaffirm it more forcefully 700 years later by invalidating the marriages of ordained priests

So what?

You are married, and I think you have children. How many times have you told little Sinky, JR., NOT to run into the street?

Simply repeating a law is not evidence of prior absence of said law.

[sinkspur]

You are married, and I think you have children. How many times have you told little Sinky, JR., NOT to run into the street?

What a bizarre analogy. There's no evidence of people getting hit by cars not being severely injured, whereas men get married all the time and, most of the time, are better for it.