[ansel12]

Licensing marriage was begun to combat the spread of VD

If you are so cowardly that you want to hide what you are responding to on freerepublic, that is your cowardly, dishonest character flaw.

Your saying that all these centuries of marriage licenses, and the many centuries of marriage banns predating the license, were about lab testing of blood samples, is silly though.

[SunkenCiv]

If you are so cowardly that you want to hide what you are responding to on freerepublic, that is your cowardly, dishonest character flaw.

Go be fruitful and multiply, but not in those words.