Talk:Consummate

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"In the United States legal system, there have been Supreme Court rulings that a marriage could be declared null and void if it had not been consummated."

OK, so how can two 75-year-old widows marry each other then?

The same freaky way everybody else does and people have been doing for millenia! Or, if vaginal sexual intercourse is unsuccessful, they have not, in fact, married. -Acjelen 02:19, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

The point you are missing is that the marriage could be declared null and void, not is automatically declared null and void.

A 75-year-old widow and a 75-year-old widower (which is what I will assume you meant, since U.S. laws do not allow people of the same gender to marry) could marry and if they were unable to consummate the marriage and if one or both of them wanted to end the marriage for that or other reasons, then U.S. law allows the marriage to be annulled rather than divorced, because of the lack of consummation. VermillionBird 15:10, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

I've changed the text concerning the catholic marriage. The text read "Within the Catholic Church, a valid marriage that has been sanctioned by the church cannot be dissolved in any manner after it has been consummated" which is a half true. ALL catholic valid marriage cannot be dissolved in any manner, consummated or not!