Re: What's the best purchase you've ever made and why ?

In article <Xns9AA3562CF6D36VeebleFetzer@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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bert@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> krw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > In article <b41Yj.144424$Er2.48534@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > sanerthanyou@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> 
> >> "Bert Hyman" <bert@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
> >> news:Xns9AA2961EA386CVeebleFetzer@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> > In news:lC%Xj.48458$3v1.17850@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> > "beadsbyirene" <sanerthanyou@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> 48 years ago, you had to purchase a license to live with someone
> >> >> for the rest of your life. Living together without that license
> >> >> was considered 'sin' in those days.
> >> >
> >> > Not quite.
> >> >
> >> > The churches required the ceremony, while the state required the
> >> > license.
> > 
> > Isn't at least a civil "ceremony" required?
> 
> I just meant that the curches were the ones who invented the concept
> of "living in sin", requiring their marriage ceremony to make the

I suppose a few hundred years ago, but I've never heard the phrase  
used for people married in other religions or even by a JP (****p's 
captain, etc.).

> marriage legit. The idea of a civil ceremony is a relatively recent
> invention. 

Define "recent".

-- 
Keith