The World's First Married Lesbian Threesome.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2611020/Meet-worlds-married-lesbian-threesome-baby-make-four-July.html

I know that this happened in America, but isn't this taking the gay marriage thingy a little too far?

[Baldric]

Scooping, you seem a tad confused, does this entry from Chambers help?

Marriage 1 the state or relationship of being husband and wife. 2 the act, or legal contract, of becoming husband and wife. 3 the CIVIL or RELIGIOUS ceremony during which this act is performed; a wedding. 4 a joining together; a union.

[grasscarp]

Can you imagine the ceremony - Doll will you take Kitten and Brynn to be your unlawful and unwedded wives? Kitten will you take Doll and Brynn ... Brynn will you take Doll and Kitten ..........

[naomi24]

I think you're treading on thin ice there, scooping. The Oxford dictionary defines marriage as: "The formal union of a man and a woman, typically as recognized by law, by which they become husband and wife". If it were solely a religious institution, religious marriage ceremonies conducted without a registrar present would render the union legal - but they're not.

[netibiza]

Marriage does not have to be religious! There's a religious ceremony or a civil ceremony Registry office (which Mr N and I had)

[pastafreak]

Bazile
" 27 and 34 ?

They look like old hags "

They look like perfectly normal women to me. If each was pictured on her own,or with a man,I bet you'd not say that.

[DTCwordfan]

My wife thought that I was a lesbian with her and her girlfriend. Does that count?

[boxtops]

I'm interested to see that one of them is handfasted to the other two. I know in the past handfasting in front of witnesses was a perfectly acceptable way of uniting man and woman, but I didn't know it had legal standing anywhere these days, which this article seems to suggest it does. If so, what's the difference in law (or not in law) between handfasting and just living with someone, which so many people do these days?

[Bazile]

//They look like perfectly normal women to me. If each was pictured on her own,or with a man,I bet you'd not say that. //

errrm - and what draws you to that conclusion then pasta ?

Noticed , i left out the first one ? - i.e. not the 30 year old

[scooping]

Quiet agree that a 'civil marriage' is as valid, legally and morally, as the religious rite marriage.
It should not, however, be called marriage. Marriage is a religious institution. Should we, perhaps, have 'civil baptism'?

[jim360]

Yes, but marriage isn't a religious institution. It's a mistake to keep insisting that it is.

[grasscarp]

Scooping. Read Baldric's post.

[naomi24]

Boxy, //While Brynn and Kitten are legally married, Doll is handfasted to both so the threesome are as equally married to each other as legally possible.//

Not sure was 'as legally as possible means'. It's either legal or it isn't - isn't it?

[naomi24]

scooping, why do you insist that marriage is a religious institution?

[scooping]

You are reporting how something is described, not how is should be correctly be defined.
My view is that the term marriage should be viewed and understood in its historical context, that of a religious institution.
I am not saying that marriage is not a legal entity in this country, of course it is. I'd repeat my point about whether we should have civil baptism. It makes no sense.
May I add that we need as much love in world as we can get. That applies to everyone.
First rule of holes, I suppose, when you're in one stop digging...Love to all.

[boxtops]

If only religious marriage is legal, scooping, then neither of mine were/are legal. Of course marriage isn't contingent on religion. You can be married by anyone who is licenced to marry people, the Church or whatever religion has nothing to do with it.

Scooping, we already have civil baptism. It's called a naming ceremony.

[boxtops]

That's what it says in the article, naomi "as legally as possible". ????

[shaneystar2]

"Marriage is a religious institution. Period. Not religious, don't get married."
So Ive been living over the brush for the last 42 years then ?
Don't talk tripe .People who marry in a register office are just as legally married as those who marry in church .

[ummmm]

As legal as possible I assume means that she has as near to the same rights as a married couple as legally possible. Pension rights etc. etc.

[naomi24]

Boxy, indeed - but I don't know what it means.

[naomi24]

Maybe ummmm.