The first idea sounds good to me - that’s what I’ve always suggested should be done. Marriage is a religious institution and there’s no reason for the state to get involved.
Then go live in the hell hole that California would surely become if something like this were to pass.
Yep, just go ahead and play into their hands, why don’t you?
The goal is the destruction of the traditional, nuclear family.
I used to be libertarian, until I realized that apathy in the face of advancing evil was dangerous and destructive to liberty.
You could always work it the other way round. During the period of English history known as the interregnum, the radicial puritan republicans made marriage into a completely secular institution. It was actually illegal to get married in a church.
No. Marriage is not a creation of the church or the State. Marriage is a social institution deemed to be a postive influence on society as a whole. As such, the Government chose to recognize and encourage it by providing certain benefits/incentives.
Replacing marriage with "domestic partnerships" is nothing more than an attempt to destroy the nuclear family, IMO.