“Interestingly, I can’t find any precedent for that in Scripture. Have you seen it any where?”
No, but I found this refreshingly simple statement on it from Jesus:
“Have ye not read, that he who made man from the beginning, Made them male and female? And he said: For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they two shall be in one flesh. Therefore now they are not two, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let no man put asunder.”—Matt.19
Exactly.
GOD puts the man and woman together.
Marriage is marriage and no one has the market on performing *legitimate* marriages.
It’s just another control thing, trying to control the personal lives of everyone.
And if someone wants to submit to the Catholic church and abide by its rules. Fine.
But they have no business trying to impose their religiosity on anyone else. They claims to be that kind of authority do not hold water and mean nothing to those outside the church.
The RCC has NO say or control over my life or my salvation. That is in the hands of Jesus. He is the only one who has the right to do that.