I think we are more in agreement than disagreement.
I agree that marriage (traditional marriage, not homosexual “marriage”) is a benefit to society. Strong families are a benefit to society.
The problem comes in whenever government inserts itself into something and tries to tinker with it. And that is what we have now.
For thousands of years people have understood what marriage is. But now, democrats see that as an opportunity to get votes, and to line their own pockets. If they can “redefine” marriage, they can use it to pit one group against another. I will also bet that the vast majority of divorce lawyers (who profit very handsomely) are democrats.
The government corrupts and taints nearly everything it touches and marriage is no exception.
I’m not against marriage. Just the opposite. I am very pro-marriage. I’m just against government meddling with it. For me, personally, it is a covenant involving a man, a woman, and God. (I still recognize a heterosexual, but non-religious, union as a marriage in the societal sense, but obviously not in the religious sense. JMO)
As things stand now, the government acts as if they “own” marriage. They have the right to define it. They have the right to tax it. They have the right to manipulate it to do whatever suits them. That is what I tried to express in my post.
My goal was not to antagonize anyone, certainly not to disparage marriage. I hoped to throw out some ideas and make people think a little about how this is one more area where we are giving up our liberty and freedom by letting the government meddle where they don’t belong. If this were the America of our Founding Fathers, I wouldn’t be worrying about government meddling. But we have been corrupted and taken over by non-benevolent, anti-family, anti-marriage “rulers.” The less they have to say about our personal lives, the better. JMO
How do you protect marriage and keep it as it is, if you don’t?
If there is no definition of marriage, then there isn’t any such thing and the word means everything and nothing.
A church can’t define it because in modern America there is no church. Atheists, Muslims, Mormons, Christians, “the Church of Gay Polygamy”, and the “Church of True Animal Lovers” can make their own rules, so we end up with no such thing as “marriage”.