CommunityTimes.com – Susan C. Ingram
In affirming Maryland marriage law as an agreement only between a man and a woman, the state Court of Appeals cast aside hundreds of years of precedent of human bonding within and across gender when practical convention allowed it.
The court’s 4-3 ruling contained no evidence of scientific thought. Instead, it bolstered certain religious claims.
The majority’s claim of marriage being basically a male-female institution is not entirely borne out by facts.
News analysis
Prior to the Middle Ages, marriage was not a church or religious concern, but a civil and practical matter. With the rise of class society it ensured a more easy transfer of property and inheritance irrespective of a couple’s pledge of commitment.