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Actually no.
Webster's defines Marriage as thus:
Oh so nobody ever got married before Catholicism?
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
FYI marriages i.e. traditional "divine" bonding ceremonies between couples have been documented back to at lest 1000 years before christianity began in the Hindu religion, so if anything catholicism is a bastardization of the hindu practice or other less-recorded ceremonies before that.
Also, again, the rights of the catholic married couples are not being infringed upon and nether is the sanctity of the ceremonies carried out in your church being effected in any way by not controlling same sex marriages that go on outside it's walls. I think that's the part that catholics nowadays aren't understanding. It's not their term, nor is it their personal plaything to allow others to use or not. It's literally none of their business what the rest of the world does with marriages if it isn't happening within the confines of your church. Christianity isn't the biggest religion in the world, nor was it the first to come up with the ideas of divine power OR marriage. It's an amalgamation of ideas put forth previously and in no way is entitled to define what marriage is or should be beyond it's own walls. Period. Anybody who thinks that Catholics are entitled to decide what is and isn't defined as legal marriage anywhere but within the Catholic church are simply self important megalomaniacs that need to sit down and stop trying to force their ideals on others.
And ore clearly to the original question, even in times of antiquity and beyond dowrys were exchanged, famillies and tribes united, kingdoms gained and lost through marraiges. It has almost ALWAYS had political and legal ties, even long before written law was around.
Desperate times call for desperate measures.
