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Marriage is between a man and a woman.
Always was always will be.
The fruits can call it anything they like, the government can do the same, if it is not between a man and a woman it is nothing but a convenience.
Amen.
I asked the Roman Catholic priest if my wife and I could refuse the state marriage license and he said that he was barred from marrying us if we had no state license.
States should give nothing other than civil unions similar to an llc or partnership. Anything a justice of the peace, vegas elvis imitator, or cruise ship captain can put together man can put asunder.
For a long time now government entities have provided tax deductions and other benefits to married couples.
If we truly want to get the government out of marriage, then we will have to get rid of all government benefits.
Also, much will have to be changed with regard to the relationship between parents and children. If most children were raised by their birth parents, then that relationship could be recognized separately from the marriage. However, with adoptions, surrogate births, etc. it is no longer obvious who has what relationship with the children. So government might have to play a larger role to make certain the children are properly represented if the government no longer officially recognizes the marriage.
It's a fustercluck either way.
It’s “Pseudo Marriage.” not “same-sex marriage.”. The latter is an oxymoron. Call it what it is not what the libs want to label it. Laws respecting marriage are “for the children.” / Michael Savage.
The government originally got into the marriage business by issuing a license for the purpose of stopping interracial marriages. The history of marriage traditionally has never been a function of the state. Marriage was first performed by God himself when he gave Eve to Adam. Why is it that our courts of today cannot see that marriage is the most obvious violation of what they call the separation of church and state?
...so some rich, gay millionaire is trying to get out of paying their fair share?
Is that what’s at the heart of this?
“Marriage is a religious concept long indelibly imprinted into Western Civilization.”
No, it’s not. It’s an agreement between a man and a woman to pass on their genes in the most effective way available to them.
All states should recongize civil unions, partner a and partner b. Marriage should be left to church.
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Marriage is the familial, societal, governmental, and economic building block of our civilization, our society, our country, and our communities. It is a God-ordained, God-given institution, the first and most important one. It is fundamental to the laws of nature and of nature’s God, and absolutely necessary to the fulfillment of the ultimate stated purpose of the U.S. Constitution, which is “to secure the Blessings of Liberty to our Posterity.” It must be fiercely defended on every front from any and all who would pervert it or subvert it, or America cannot possibly survive. The attack on the natural family represents an existential threat.
Okay, none of the government’s business. So if I get married again, I can just declare it polyandry and still keep the military benefits from my first (deceased) husband, right?
“Now, since the family and human society at large spring from marriage, these men will on no account allow matrimony to be the subject of the jurisdiction of the Church. Nay, they endeavor to deprive it of all holiness, and so bring it within the contracted sphere of those rights which, having been instituted by man, are ruled and administered by the civil jurisprudence of the community. Wherefore it necessarily follows that they attribute all power over marriage to civil rulers, and allow none whatever to the Church; and, when the Church exercises any such power, they think that she acts either by favor of the civil authority or to its injury. Now is the time, they say, for the heads of the State to vindicate their rights unflinchingly, and to do their best to settle all that relates to marriage according as to them seems good.”
-—Pope Leo XIII about 130 years ago.
It was always a danger, at least in the modern era. As far as the state is concerned, marriage is simply whatever judges, pols, or 51% of the people think it can be at any one time. And that’s it. A poll last year said that 40% of people think that marriage comes from the state.
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