States didn’t get involved in marriage for most of human history. The only reason for it now is property laws.
[[States didn’t get involved in marriage for most of human history. The only reason for it now is property laws.]]
Thatr’s not hte only reason- the reason the govenrment took over marriages was for monetary purposes and for htep urpose of joining together two procreatign adults so they coudl create the next generation of taxpayers which woudl support the govenrment (which is precisdely why Gay ‘marriage’ shoudl NOT be allowed Especially if the govenrment insists on taking over the holy sanctity of marriage fro mthe church)
I think the state was involved for thousands of years including in 1790 America, and there has always been a controlling power to impose marriage laws, whether officially government, or the Christian church, or the Islamic law.
In America, all religions or non-religion, are equal, that means that each one can define marriage if that is the argument, polygamy, gay marriage, traditional marriage, animal marriage, incest marriage, a ban on race mixing, whatever anyone wants.
I doubt that the first time that homosexuals ever wanted to “marry” suddenly just appeared and was never thought of and forbidden by authority, during the last few thousands of years.