_Joe_
May 10, 2012, 11:16 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Boswell
I heard about this guy from another site, which copy and paste made me realize I should totally read this guys book.
http://anthropologist.livejournal.com/1314574.html
Short and Sweet - Christianity allowed gay marriages for quite a while in the past.
Contrary to myth, Christianity's concept of marriage has not been set in stone since the days of Christ, but has constantly evolved as a concept and ritual. Prof. John Boswell, the late Chairman of Yale University’s history department, discovered that in addition to heterosexual marriage ceremonies in ancient Christian church liturgical documents, there were also ceremonies called the "Office of Same-Sex Union" (10th and 11th century), and the "Order for Uniting Two Men" (11th and 12th century).
So much to read, I couldn't do it justice copying so much over. But this one screams to me :
Records of Christian same sex unions have been discovered in such diverse archives as those in the Vatican, in St. Petersburg, in Paris, in Istanbul and in the Sinai, covering a thousand-years from the 8th to the 18th century.
And here's a book :
http://www.amazon.com/Same-Sex-Unions-Premodern-Europe-Boswell/dp/0679751645
I heard about this guy from another site, which copy and paste made me realize I should totally read this guys book.
http://anthropologist.livejournal.com/1314574.html
Short and Sweet - Christianity allowed gay marriages for quite a while in the past.
Contrary to myth, Christianity's concept of marriage has not been set in stone since the days of Christ, but has constantly evolved as a concept and ritual. Prof. John Boswell, the late Chairman of Yale University’s history department, discovered that in addition to heterosexual marriage ceremonies in ancient Christian church liturgical documents, there were also ceremonies called the "Office of Same-Sex Union" (10th and 11th century), and the "Order for Uniting Two Men" (11th and 12th century).
So much to read, I couldn't do it justice copying so much over. But this one screams to me :
Records of Christian same sex unions have been discovered in such diverse archives as those in the Vatican, in St. Petersburg, in Paris, in Istanbul and in the Sinai, covering a thousand-years from the 8th to the 18th century.
And here's a book :
http://www.amazon.com/Same-Sex-Unions-Premodern-Europe-Boswell/dp/0679751645