And, further description in writing…
‘My next reason for thinking we should stay involved in this debate is that, for all the ‘no big deal’ talk marriage is in fact ‘a big deal’, something very precious and worth preserving. When men and women get together in this particular way, even people with not much faith, they almost always surround it with ceremony because they know something-bigger-than-ordinary-life is going on here and want Someone-bigger-than-ordinary-people to bless it. They understand that there is a mystery at stake that is deeper and hopefully more enduring than passing emotions and fading passions. By a strange natural and supernatural mathematics the one plus one that makes two in an ordinary couple makes one in a married couple…’ From Archbishop Anthony of Australia.
