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To: Fai Mao; mkmensinger

Exactly. Churches never should have cut a deal with Caesar to administer those civil licenses in the first place. Who the hell is anyone in government to demand a license for a marriage anyway?


5 posted on 07/13/2015 4:13:41 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("It doesn't work for me. I gotta have more cowbell!")
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To: Alberta's Child
>>Who the hell is anyone in government to demand a license for a marriage anyway?

droit du seigneur

noun droit du sei·gneur \drwä-due-se-nʸœr\

Definition of DROIT DU SEIGNEUR

:  a supposed legal or customary right of a feudal lord to have sexual relations with a vassal's bride on her wedding night

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/droit%20du%20seigneur
12 posted on 07/13/2015 5:14:02 AM PDT by HLPhat (This space is intentionally blank.)
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