The New Hampshire Gazette

Curious protest.—Mr. H. B. Fearon, of
London, author of a tour through America,
recently published, was on the 12th ult.
married at West Ham, Essex, to Miss
Thompson, when a Protest against the marriage ceremony, signed by the bride and
bridegroom, was delivered (previous to its
performance) into the hands of the minister,
by Mr. Fearon; the protest contained
the following passages: "The undersigned being Protestant Dissenters, present
to you the following protest against the marriage ceremony as at present performed, and
to which according to the laws of England,
they are compelled to subscribe. Against
the marriage ceremony they most solemnly
protest, because it makes marriage a religious instead of a civil act; because parts
of the ceremony are highly indelicate, and
must to every correctly constituted mind be
extremely offensive: because the man is required to worship the woman, though the
founder of Christianity has declared that
God is the only object for the Christian to
worship: because it requires the recognition
of the doctrine of the Trinity, than which
nothing can be more oppressive to those who
disbelieve conscientiously, and after patient
investigation, that doctrine; and because as
warm and firm believers in the truth of
Christianity, they disbelieve and abominate
the doctrine of the Trinity, in the name of
which the marriage ceremony is performed" —London pap.