By the final scene, Alice and Robin are married right? Obviously itd be a while after the United Realms were created, but still... I think they were wife and wife by then.
By the final scene, Alice and Robin are married right? Obviously itd be a while after the United Realms were created, but still... I think they were wife and wife by then.
Ok but why is this being debated so fervently? Real world rules don't apply in a fairytale land, and our own laws and history are irrelevant.
Because someone chose to respond in a way that belittles marriage both in show and in real life, and adoption too. I will not let that pass by me unnoted. One does not have to get married in a church for it to be valid, and someone's church marriage is not more valid than someone who gets married in a park or a courthouse. This is a forum for expressing our thoughts and opinions, and that means people will respond to them.
Belle and Gold weren't married in a church. I don't see anyone saying they're not really married.
I’m pretty sure the implication is that it’s also religious institutions and since Archie was a minister it “counts”, I mean I agree with you, but I believe that was their reasoning. I also doubt that whatever church Archie was cursed to be ordained by would care that a person they don’t know exists married a lesbian couple that they don’t know exists even if they wouldn’t want anyone in the real world to do it.
They live in a fictional world, or rather worlds. So, I wouldn't recommend to adapt our world's systems into OUATverse, not even the LWM.
Maybe, Christianity in EF (which exists) is different than the real one. Maybe religions actually support same-sex relationships. Because as I said, it's a fictional universe. They can do whatever they want.
Even though I live in a country in which the most of the population are Muslims, I surely know that there are tons of churches of Christianity which perform same-sex weddings. But I won't tolerate this "Alice and Robin won't have children so they're gonna be unhappy", or "Their marriage is not valid since they are LGBT". There is enough hate in the world, let's just not move them into a fictional one.
I agree with what Cado and Utter said; this whole issue of valid marriage and children is pointless.
Archie isn't a minister. Or, we have zero direct evidence that he is. Iirc, he actually uses the word "officiate" when he marries Belle and Gold.
His page said that he ministèred the wedding so I trusted that.
I know that Justices of the Peace and whatnot can marry people, his page calls him a minister so I trusted it.