>On the subject of religion and marriage, it amuses me that religous groups claim ownership to marriage. Marriage predates christianity by thousands of years.

So do the Easter eggs - that's been done in ancient Egypt. Likewise, almost all of the Slavic gods have accidentally been reincarnated as Christian saints with the same portfolio - Perun, the god of lightning and thunder became St. Ilija (Ilias), the Thundercaster. Etc etc...

Just like they once said the Communist Party invented airplanes.