Even if a church/congregation wants to offer a religious blessing to a couple?
Odd that the government would have any say over what a church does on its property.
Maybe Britain's more American than I'd thought.
Chucrh weddings aren't recognised here since Napoleon divided church and state - in ALL German countries since 1876.
Don't Napoleon's each was long indeed--55 years beyond the grave . . .
Well, not every German country fullfilled his orders and laws stante pede.
What else did you suppose we lederhosen-wearing-beer-drinking-sausage-earting-undermensch could be?
It gratifies me to see, Walter, that you know your place . . .
At least, I've got 1/16 French blood in my venes.
God didnt invent marriage, people did.
Walter Hinteler wrote:At least, I've got 1/16 French blood in my venes.
Good Heavens! Does Francis know? You might be related.
A song for all gay men
from snow white & the 7 dwarfs
Some day my prince will come
Some day we'll meet again
And away to his castle we'll go
To be happy forever I know
Some day when spring is here
We'll find our love anew
And the birds will sing
And wedding bells will ring
Some day when my dreams come true
Steve (as 41oo) wrote:Walter Hinteler wrote:At least, I've got 1/16 French blood in my venes.
Good Heavens!
Mon dieu, you certainyl mean.
Steve (as 41oo) wrote:Walter Hinteler wrote:At least, I've got 1/16 French blood in my venes.
You might be related.
Since my sister (and an aunt) were named 'Antoinette', I'm certain that my French connection is royal. :wink:
(Seriously, Hugenots they were origianally, then converted to Catholicism.)
Marie Antoinette, was, as Walter ought to know, but is conveniently forgetting, Austrian . . . originally, her name was Maria Antonia--Austria controlled vast tracts of northern Italy, and things Italian were all the rage there in Wein in the 1750's. Additionally, her mother, Maria Theresa, was married to Francis of Lorraine, who didn't own a single square inch of Lorraine, being then the Archduke of Tuscany, owning no Tuscan territory, but a whole heap of acreage in the vicinity of Milan--hence the obsession with things Italian.
The foregoing historical passage is as obscure and obtuse as i could make it without lying outright . . .
Wow! glad to see that Set is feeling better. <smile>
Don we now our gay apparel, fa la la la la...........
It was Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna's 250th birthday, btw, last month (born the 2nd of November 1755 in Vienna). :wink:
