[Sir Francis Dashwood]

...in reply to the cry "what we do in our bedrooms is nobody's business!"

In reply to that, I say marriage is a public act that requires a license:

It was landmark U.S. Supreme Court precedent Reynolds v. United States in 1878 that made “separation of church and state” a dubiously legitimate point of case law, but more importantly; it confirmed the Constitutionality in statutory regulation of marriage practices.

[Gumlegs]

lentulusgracchus: "...in reply to the cry 'what we do in our bedrooms is nobody's business!'"

SFD: In reply to that, I say marriage is a public act that requires a license:

Can you believe some jerk here has this on his homepage here?

I say the federal and state governments have no Constitutional authority to be in the marriage business at all, except where each individual has a biological responsibility for any offspring they produce.