“Marriage is a blessing, but only if it is from God. Marriage that begins in desire and is based on pleasure of the flesh and not on love of virtue, is not holy, but sinful,” Andrew Gorka declared as he attacked the King’s secret marriage before the assembled parliament. And no one in that public place would argue with him. Certainly not in 1548.

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        But in private, young people with dreams for their future and elderly people who have seen too many dreams dashed had a lot to say about arranged marriages and the place of sexuality in life.