One more time, please-”rambling nonsense” is not a nice thing to say-if you had asked me to cite my source(s), that would be fine-I don’t hand out bull****, nor cite non-existant readings. But if you have a problem with my speech/grammar-well, that is the way I talk.
I’ve read all of that in my college years in books, but I’m sure that a passing reference to the history of civil marriage is available just about everywhere, and faster than me fetching an old textbook from upstairs.
Just about every society that sold licenses for marriage ended up issuing them to just about anyone who had the price-do you know how many bigamists never get caught, even today?
I agree with the person who started the thread-make the state call the license a civil contract, and let churches perform the sacrament of marriage.
In my former life, I was a casemanager/social worker-until I figured out that it was not a profession for a person who loved Reagan and had any sense-so I went to work in the private sector. But I did get a pretty good idea of what government’s hands doesn’t belong in while I was in the belly of the beast.
Just more ramblings. Example *”Just about every society that sold licenses for marriage ended up issuing them to just about anyone who had the price-do you know how many bigamists never get caught, even today?”*, you have no idea of those numbers or statistics over the time of man, yet you pretend to.
For marriage to survive in America, then it has to be defined.
That means a common definition, not the definition of the Muslim church, or the FLDS church, or the definition of the liberal arm of the Episcopal church, or of the San Fran gay chapel church.