Not Quite The 3,000 Year Old Social Construct Of Marriage They Thought

Love and marriage goes together like a horse and carriage according to the old song which is fine until it is between two people of the same sex but if it isn't an XX and XY Chromosomes receiving the blessing then the religious folk start angrily shaking their rosary beads and stutter that 'MARRIAGE IS A 3,000 YEAR OLD SOCIAL CONSTRUCT BETWEEN TWO PEOPLE OF OPPOSITE BIOLOGICAL SEX'.
The first recorded evidence of marriage ceremonies uniting one woman and one man dates from about 2350 B.C. in Mesopotamia and over the next several hundred years, marriage evolved into a widespread institution embraced by the ancient Hebrews, Greeks, and Romans but it wasn't about love then or even religion, it was a way to bind women to men to become his property and guarantee that the man’s children were biologically his.
Part of the marriage ceremony of ancient Greece was where the father would hand over his daughter with the words: '“I pledge my daughter for the purpose of producing legitimate offspring' and if the wife failed to produce offspring, the husband could legally give them back to the father and marry someone else. And who said romance was dead!
Homosexual weddings were commonplace in Rome between the first and third Centuries regardless of whether the bride and groom had the same sex organs, even the Roman emperor Nero married men in wedding ceremonies but it wasn't until the eighth Century that the Church realised they could drag God into the union and the Catholic Church made it so that for a marriage to be 'legal', it had to be conducted by a priest.
The Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches even had special documents for homosexual wedding ceremonies, the “Order for Solemnisation of Same Sex Union and the Uniting Two Men documents where the priest would grant the participants “grace to love one another with the help of the Holy Mother of God and all thy saints.”
The actual wedding sacraments were not written into canon law until the Council of Trent in 1563 although the church still held that men were the head of families, with their wives deferring to their wishes and the bride’s identity was absorbed into the grooms, so the bride would give up her surname as a symbol of surrendering of her identity and the husband would become the representative of both people.
It wasn't until women won the right to vote and became a full citizen that that the institution of marriage underwent a dramatic transformation to resemble what we know today which is the union of two people so far from protecting a 3,000 year old construct of men and women, the Bible carrying crowd are actually protecting a 3,000 year old social construct that” started out as a way to bind women to be nothing more than chattle and baby carriers for men and 1300 years ago when it became officially the religious union of two people regardless of whether they were the same sex.
Hey, let's not tell them, it might ruin their sanctimonious behaviour to educate them .