States need to play the left’s game.
Stop issuing marriage license to anyone. You want to get married, that will be the feds responsibility.
Change and use words different than marriage for a union between a man and a woman.
If marriage is the responsibility of the fed so is divorce from marriage.
Swamp the federal courts with millions of divorce from marriage cases so people can then be rejoined in a union between a man and a woman.
Up until this morning I would have called marriage a state responsibility. Now we find that all along it's been a power reserved to the United States. So I would think states have no business issuing marriage licenses.
It seems to me that those saying the state should get out of the marriage business are right, except possibly to rule that a notice must be posted publicly, as when a couple separates, that a promise has been made (or broken) between two people to do such-and-such—wills, hospital visits, custody of children, etc.
Then the religious among us can have celebrations of the promise made before God at our local churches or wherever we like. No church sanction, no legally binding piece of paper. Because fundamentally it is a promise made between two people, which can never be illegal on its face. If you make it before God, that is your choice, and then it is really a marriage. Only difference is you don’t have run to a priest first chance you get.
Still thinking this over . . .
Correct. Eliminate government from it entirely. Contract between parties, religious ceremonies at the Church.