I follow your line of thought, Sergeant_T, perhaps, as I have read much on the Celts... Partly to find evidence to whether same-sex relationships were approved of and possibly honored like marriages, as with hundreds of North American tribes, until European expansionism and the Missionaries ruined their cultures.
The only unclear part of your post then, for me, is this:
"Marriages were social arrangements. Unfaithfulness with the opposite or same sex was grounds for divorce so the legal evidence is that Celtic men and women enjoyed both heterosexual and homosexual relationships."
Would a partner in a same-sex couple have grounds for "divorce" if one of the partners was dallying with another person of either sex? Do you know of any sources on that subject?
I am not interested in the subject to find historical ammo for the cause of modern day legalized same-sex marriages. I couldn't care less and think that Government has no place what so ever in individuals' chioces of sexual partners and committments (or lack there of). I find pre-Judeo-Christian societies to be facinating in their relational diversity. Especially, evidence of ethical, bisexual polyamory and institutional group sexual rites.
(By the way, you are missed in the chat room... PM me, maybe I can help you get back in there!)
Thanks for bringing this up, naughty, but, I am curious why you titled the thread Celtic Cougars?
:wink: _Onan