Oh, good grief!
That's like saying we would all be animals if it wasn't for government paperwork.
Families recorded marriages [performed at a church], births and deaths for GENERATIONS in the family Bible. Do you think our forefathers behaved like dogs and cats, mating at will with no thought of who they were or what they came from?
Keeping track of such things is the responsibility of individual people, NOT the government.
Back in the day of our forefathers you could challenge a person to a duel if you suspected they were having an affair with your spouse, or if you caught your spouse in the act of committing adultery you could kill them with little concern for being arrested and charged with murder. Now laws are totally different,.
"Gay Marriage" is the "Trojan horse" method of attack by homosexual activists and advocacy groups in the effort to legitimize the perverse behavior of homosexuality in the courts and by legislation. Should homosexual marriage be legalized then by judicial fiat homosexuality would be legitimized across the board. This means that school children by law would be taught that homosexual behavior is a "safe" and "normal" alternative "sexual lifestyle" choice and by law parents will have no grounds to object (regardless of the negative spiritual, moral, psychological, biological, and medical consequences)
IOW unconditional approval and acceptance, kowtow or be hauled in front of a "diversity" tribunal and be charged/convicted of hate crimes. The perverts want to use the heavy hand of the government to force parents to let their children to be indoctrinated with their perverse idea of reality.
Tone it down with the ‘good grief’.
I’ve been researching back through 25 generations of my Grandmother’s family and were it not for ‘government’ sources I would not have been able to locate many links in the family tree.
This is an attack on families. Birth certificates, marriage certificates, census information, military documents, death certificates are all a part of any research into a family’s genealogy. I have found the church documents to be helpful, but not completely reliable without the added substantiation of the government documents.
With so many out of wedlock births, absent fathers, sperm and egg donors etc... Sadly we are building future generations who will not know where they came from. The loss of that identity is, I believe welcomed by some who wish to pursue a collectivist society.