"And the Church's views on marriage were nothin' short of ridiculous. It had to be celebrated in public, and the marriage was permanent, for mercy's sake. We preferred to do things more clandestinelike, for marriage, after all, is a personal affair. And after a year, if the man was not up to his wife's standards, she could boot him out the door. Say, "I divorce you!" and he was gone, just like that. Canon law did agree with native law in one respect. It said that a woman could own property. Nice, you say. Sure, so the woman could leave her property to the Church! Hypocrisy, pure and simple. And the feckin' clergy--they made whores of all women who would lay with a man she lusted after. What sense is there in that? Most"