26 » pink weddings magazine
Equality in marriagE
RELIGIOUS
‘Interestingly, it was 16th
century Protestant founder,
Martin Luther, who declared
marriage to be “aworldly
thing…that belongs to the
realmof government”.
And shortly after that the
English Puritans passed an
Act of Parliament asserting
“marriage to be no
sacrament”whichmade it
a purely secular deed, no
longer to be performed by
aminister, but by a justice
of the peace...
‘Sowhy then, wewonder,
does the Church have the
responsibility today for the
legal joining together of
two people?’