Same Sex Marriage In Ancient Cultures

Same-sex marriage was not considered to be a taboo in Ancient cultures, around the world, documents of recorded history has been found about same-sex marriage. There have been various types of same-sex relationships and marriages, ranging from highly ritualized, to an unsanctioned relationship. Most of the same-sex relationships were known in Rome, and in Ancient Greece, though some same-sex marriages were done more in Mesopotamia than in Ancient Egypt. The almanac of Incantations contained prayers in favor on the basis of being equal in the way a man could marry a woman, so could a man and a man, so for a woman and a woman. In the southern Chinese province, through the Ming Dynasty, the practice of binding two females together through a contract was common, as was also done for males, too. This type of arrangement was also practiced in Ancient Europe, an example of an egalitarian male partnership from the early Zhou Dynasty in China was recorded in the story of Pan Zhang and Wang Zhengxian. The rare relationship was approved by the community and was seen to be as equal to a heterosexual relationship, the binding of the two didn 't involve a religious ceremony to seal them together. Some Western Societies also had …show more content…
Thus, four couples, three male couples and 1 female couple, had gotten married. In the U.S, the earliest known case of legal same-sex marriage was held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, between two women. Same-sex marriage has been a controversial subject to religions and non religious everywhere, for centuries there have been countless battles of wits to win the freedom to marry the other sex and to keep the name of marriage pure. The opposing party consists of American Baptist Churches, Mormons, Islam, Roman Catholic Church, and