With more kids born out of wedlock than not the state regularly decideds custody and child support issues absent a state marriage license, why would it not continue to do so? The state also settles property disputes for a number of non-married people, room mates and business partners come immediately to mind. What prevents a church married couple from having a civil contract that defines what will happen to property in the event of a dissolution of a marriage?
I have heard, and can believe, arguements to the effect of if we are a society so corrupt as to marginalize marriage and celebrate homosexual faux-marriages that we are spiraling the drain. But other than the “if we have to privitize marriage we are so far gone it doesn’t matter” arguement I have yet to have someone present a serious downside to a policy privatizing marriage.
When we abandon morality, government fills the void left behind.
We already have privatized marriage, and always have.
If you don’t want to deal with whatever constitutes “legal” marriage, then don’t.
“th more kids born out of wedlock than not the state regularly decideds custody and child support issues absent a state marriage license, why would it not continue to do so? The state also settles property disputes for a number of non-married people, room mates and business partners come immediately to mind. What prevents a church married couple from having a civil contract that defines what will happen to property in the event of a dissolution of a marriage?”
All this happens because adults refuse to take responsibility for their actions. They refuse to think things through, prefer to let someone else handle reality for them, and refuse to learn about the heartbreak they had in the past.
If people were realistic about people, life, and what marriage really is and who they are likelier to marry, I am certain that there would be less divorce and less government involved in our lives.