Civil Partership Ruling

There's no doubt that traditional weddings do suggest female inferiority. Brides advertise their virginity by wearing white whereas men feel no such need; they are walked up the aisle by their fathers and walked out by the new husbands as though they are in constant need of a male chaperone; traditionally, the woman only wore a ring suggesting she was the property of the man; and the woman almost lost her own identity by taking upon herself her husband's surname and sometimes even first name in all matters legal. None of this, however, is in the Bible, but rather comes from a later tradition. So although I see nothing wrong with these traditional expressions of wedding, I cannot accept the argument that marriage is intrinsically symptomatic of patriarchy.