Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150910:05:43:00
To have and to hold from this day forward for better, for worse, for richer for poorer in sickness and in health, to love, cherish, and to obey until death do us part. that's the marriage vow for brides in the book of common prayer, which was used in this country for centuries. the vow for grooms is identical except for the words "and to obey." there's nothing in the vow about how the husband should be obeying the wife. just the wife obeying the husband. and so mary walker took those words out of her wedding vows in 1855, and she refused to take her husband's last name.