There's a really interesting historian who claims that "the church has already married same-sex couples" and the NY Times prints about it here.

On the one hand, Boswell seems to want to equate these ceremonies to the modern conversation, which seems a little hasty; while Catholics have a remarkably unanimous rebuttal that I've heard independently across multiple conversations: Boswell is fringe and these were just friendship ceremonies.

How as academic community received Boswell's work? Are there other attestations of these ceremonies beyond what are in the church records or any other similar phenomena? What's the historical context of these relationships? Are they really just bromances? That seems pretty intense.

Lots of questions!