.."" but any actual marriage in the last thousand years""

It seems like you are "stacking the deck" i this discussion by asking a question and then rejecting contributions because they do not meet some odd, unidentified personal standard for "actual marriage" you have set in your mind. This is a good example of skewed logic, IMO, not too cleverly put forward to reinforce a idea already held.

Of course, marriage in the far off past, that merged into todays versions (eons before Christianity) did not mirror todays civil and religious mrriages, regardless of the sexes of the persons involved I that early day marriage.

So, what is your real purpose in wasting other posters time and energy by doing so?