My husband and I bought the required marriage license, but were married by a Catholic priest in a ceremony before witnesses and guests-only after the priest had blessed our vows did we consider ourselves married-my opinion may be colored somewhat by my beliefs.
Let private attorneys draw up simple, standard contracts-divorce and custody issues, etc are based on a piece of paper that says absolutely nothing of import now-a marriage license-I produced mine to qualify for my late husband’s military benefits. That could just as easily have been a certificate from a church, temple, mosque, etc. asserting that we were married on such-and-such a date, before witnesses. In Texas, we still also have “common law marriage”.
How about if we let those issues you mention that revolve around a spousal contract continue to do so-but have the contract be a marriage performed by clergy-or one drawn up by a lawyer, in the case of atheists? The point being to get the government out of personal business-all they have done is drag us down the path to secularism and ridiculous “rights” that have no basis in anything but imagination.
RE: That could just as easily have been a certificate from a church, temple, mosque, etc. asserting that we were married on such-and-such a date, before witnesses.
Well, that implies that the government still is in the business of recognizing marriages then.
I thought our discussion is about government totally getting away from the marriage business... and here we are, they’re still in it.
LOL, yea people get married and think they will stay all their lives wiht each other but the problem is that they have kids and then want a divorce and that is when the govt steps in.
Govt out of marriage is a cop out for the simple or not thought about it folk.
I;m sick of hearing that homosexuals should marry and then it;s cousins, then get rid of age limits
Govt out of it is a cop out which sounds good but not in reality