[Grunthor]

I don not believe that the government should have any role in marriage other than making sure that the children of such relationships are supported if they dissolve.

There should be no such thing as a “wedding license” issued by the state.

[allmendream]

When I got married in Virginia they had a place to put your “race”. I put “human” and my fiance left it blank. A “helpful” clerk looked at the two of us and put in “Caucasian”.

This was, no doubt, the exact mechanism that got Mr. Loving arrested on the night of his honeymoon for marrying his pregnant (black) girlfriend. By the morality I was raised with, this would be known as “doing the right thing”. By the morality of Virginia in the 60’s it was a crime.

The State of Virginia recognized and legislated marriage such that two people of different ‘races’ could not get married.

State involvement in marriage has a long and not very illustrious history. I would rather, as with most things, that they kept their involvement to a minimum or an absence.

JMHO.

[HerbieHoover]

There should be no such thing as a “wedding license” issued by the state.

That would be a simple and elegant solution to the whole problem.

The catch is that it doesn't give politicians an opportunity to grandstand and divert attention from their ineptitude at managing the government, so they want no part of it.