Florida has banned gay marriage

[TruckOSaurus]

HappySqurriel said:

TruckOSaurus said:

Catherine of Aragon was not barren, she had many pregnancies but a lot of stillborn babies. She had a girl (Mary) and a boy who only lived a month or two.

 

 

... and her inability to produce a male heir was the reason she was considered to be an unfit wife.

A large portion of what we now understand about reproduction demonstrate that the "Traditional" definition of marriage may be obsolete, but the "Romantic" definition of marriage is also far from ideal. Personally, I'm for the elimination of a legal definition of marriage because most of the rights and responsibilities that come from marriage no longer require a marriage and people generally define their relationship on their own terms anyways.

 

This is why Henry VIII considered her an unfit wife but that argument would not have been enough to convince the Church to declare the marriage void. They used the fact that she was married to Henry's brother before him to declare she was not a virgin before the marriage to Henry (a fact she has always denied). That was the official reason the marriage was declared void.

As for the rest of your point, I agree with the fact that people define their own relationship nowadays. I just wanted to set some history points straight.