Intentions not promises
Keith Wedmore offers some thoughts towards a Quaker view of marriage
Marriage is a useful and easily recognised concept carrying many privileges of practical use. But as Friends our first aims are to face reality and avoid hypocrisy. It is time our marriage commitments steered towards real intentions rather than unreal promises. In wording certificates Friends have already dropped ‘obey’. ‘Obey’: with its whiff of treason if Eve does not obey Adam. ‘All my worldly goods’: the Married Women’s Property Act 1870 removed the inability of married women to have property.
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