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For Christians, marriage has traditionally been seen as "a union that takes its distinctive character from being founded, unlike other friendships, on bodily unity of the kind that sometimes generates new life."<ref> [http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/marriage/mf0123.htm Gay Marriage, Democracy, and the Courts]</ref> As such, marriage is the one and only form of companionship from which all other forms spring: it is the single irreducible core of [[society]].
For Christians, marriage has traditionally been seen as "a union that takes its distinctive character from being founded, unlike other friendships, on bodily unity of the kind that sometimes generates new life."<ref> [http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/marriage/mf0123.htm Gay Marriage, Democracy, and the Courts]</ref> As such, marriage is the one and only form of companionship from which all other forms spring: it is the single irreducible core of [[society]].
==Modern history of marriage law==
*1724 - blacks, with permission of their slave owner, given the right to marry (formerly only whites could legally marry)
*1769 - women no longer considered property of their husbands
*1899 - polygamy outlawed
*1967 - interracial marriage legalized
*1981 - men no longer seen as the sole owners of all marital property
==Attacks on the institution of marriage==
==Attacks on the institution of marriage==