As an LDS member, and a Christian, I hope that we as a country follow Rand Paul’s (?) recent throughts that the Government gets out of the marriage regulation business altogether.
If Marriage has been dumbed down to mean anything, than the only meaningful marriage is a religious marriage pledge before God anyway!
As a Baptist, and fellow Christian, I salute the LDS for taking an outspoken lead on this.
**”As an LDS member, and a Christian, I hope that we as a country follow Rand Paul’s (?) recent throughts that the Government gets out of the marriage regulation business altogether.”**
Nonsense. That is a silly argument, and a call for polygamy.
Marriage licenses became mandatory in 1639, in Massachusetts.
From THE COLONIAL FAMILY IN AMERICA “While we think of the early New England settlers as very religious, they actually viewed marriage as a civil contract, not a religious contract. Consequently, marriage was a function of the magistrates more than the clergy.”
From LEGISLATIVE GUIDE TO MARRIAGE LAW Iowa.gov “They (Puritans founders of Massachusetts) believed that marriage was not a religious ceremony but a civil contract. They required that this covenant must be “agreed” or “executed” (not “performed” or “solemnized”) before a magistrate, and not a minister. They also insisted that if the terms of the marriage covenant were broken, then the union could be ended by divorce. These attitudes became the basis of regional marriage customs throughout New England.”
“As an LDS member,”
Then you believe in polgamy in the afterlife, which is less than helpful in this debate.