I wish one of these states being sued would just write marriage out of their legal code altogether. Return marriage to being something done by the Church and leave it at that.
More liebertarian gibberish. There is NOTHING WRONG with the state recognizing marriage - real marriage. Someone, of necessity, will need to enlist the state to officiate when marriages fail or are contested (the alternative is pistols at 20 paces.) What the state officiates, they must define.
“I wish one of these states being sued would just write marriage out of their legal code altogether. Return marriage to being something done by the Church and leave it at that.”
It will never happen, in my opinion.
The statists have to weaken society and the culture in order to have more reliant upon it. Conditioning people to think that marriage comes from and is defined by the state is a good way to do that. To the state it’s just a contract that be broken and resumed between any parties the state approves. To many ‘gay marriage’ can obviously exist: judges, pols, and the voting majority have decided that it exists in 18 states +, so far.
The homosexualists need a way to punish and to keep punishing those who they know will never accept ‘gay marriage.’ So they need the state defining and regulating marriage. This is why you don’t hear them making this argument.
“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.”
—gibbering libertarian Pope Leo XIII, 1880
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