Marriage is a covenant and not a contract. It was instituted by God and not by man. As an institution, it is not in the realm of government, because government cannot enter into a covenant nor can government regulate it.
Because government has grown hostile to marriage as God defines it, in order to protect that sacred institution, we must now remove the power to regulate and define marriage from government. Then people can conduct their private affairs as they see fit, and they cannot get government to impose their private relationships on people who reject them.
If we must have separation of Church and State, we must also separate functions of the Church from functions of the State. We now should see that was a mistake to get the State involved in marriage. Let us quickly repair this error by repealing all state power regarding marriage.
[ Marriage is a covenant and not a contract. It was instituted by God and not by man. As an institution, it is not in the realm of government, because government cannot enter into a covenant nor can government regulate it.
Because government has grown hostile to marriage as God defines it, in order to protect that sacred institution, we must now remove the power to regulate and define marriage from government. Then people can conduct their private affairs as they see fit, and they cannot get government to impose their private relationships on people who reject them.
If we must have separation of Church and State, we must also separate functions of the Church from functions of the State. We now should see that was a mistake to get the State involved in marriage. Let us quickly repair this error by repealing all state power regarding marriage. ]
Here: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/26/opinion/26coontz.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
“The American colonies officially required marriages to be registered, but until the mid-19th century, state supreme courts routinely ruled that public cohabitation was sufficient evidence of a valid marriage. By the later part of that century, however, the United States began to nullify common-law marriages and exert more control over who was allowed to marry.
By the 1920s, 38 states prohibited whites from marrying blacks, “mulattos,” Japanese, Chinese, Indians, “Mongolians,” “Malays” or Filipinos. Twelve states would not issue a marriage license if one partner was a drunk, an addict or a “mental defect.” Eighteen states set barriers to remarriage after divorce. “
It all started in the “Progressive Era”...
Your comment is spot on.
You would be right, if marriage were only a spiritual covenant. But it’s not. It’s more than that. It’s the fundamental building block of of any decent society, of civil government, of economy, and the only guarantee of our physical posterity.
To say that we don’t want the civil institution of marriage any more is to say that we no longer want civil government.
Some of us tried to warn you. But you wouldn’t listen.
No, we were “libertines” for saying that government should have no role in marriage. “Once you let government codify in law what is or isnt marriage you’re at the mercy of whatever mob manages to get 51% of the vote.” You hooted us down.
Well, reap what you’ve sown.
And that sound? It’s folks like me laughing at your folly.
Enjoy,
L
In the USSR, the church is separated from the state, and the school from the church.That phrase comes from the USSR’s constitution.
“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, 1880
All marriage has ever been to the state in the modern era is simply whatever judges, pols, or the voting majority think it is at any one time.
Freegards
BTTT!!