1. Same Sex Marriages
... diminish" (Exodus 21:10). "Neither can a husband withhold inheritance from the children of an unloved plural wife" (Deuteronomy 21:15-17). Western culture did not view monogamy as essential to marriage until Modestinus, a fourth-century non-Christian Roman lawyer, who defined the institution for the Roman Empire: ... Belgium became the second country in the modern world to offer legal marriage to same-sex couples on January 30, 2003. • Canada The Canadian province of Ontario became the third government in the world, on June 10, 2003, and British Columbia became the fourth, on July 8, ...
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