One more thing on marriage...

New Donkey has these thoughts on the Protestant Reformation and the institution of marriage:

Virtually all of the leaders of the Reformation denounced the idea of marriage as a scripturally-sanctioned church sacrament, holding that baptism and the Eucharist were the only valid sacraments. Luther called marriage "a secular and outward thing,"which he did not mean as a compliment. Calvin treated marriage as a "union of pious persons," and while he did consider marriage a "covenant," he used the same term for virtually every significant human relationship.

I am not a religious scholar, so I have no comment on this other than to say it is an interesting thought... would others who know more about this please comment? Heidi?