I think it is healthy for churches to have their own recognitions of marriage as they do. The Catholics have been doing it since rocks cooled. They don't recognize marriages by divorcees. To get out of that box, they issue disingenuous wholesale annulments. I think it is in the interests of the state to respect and honor profound adult commitments of intimacy, and in fact beyond that, a recognition of the that gays are full citizens of the land, in every sense, and to encourage monogamy. But that is my policy choice, and it will cost the government considerable money in federal benefits and more fraudulent "marriages" if it goes down that road. For one to suggest otherwise, is to not be honest.
You are correct about it in one direction, but ignored the basis of my question. If the state corrupts the definition of marriage, what will compel the Catholic Church to continue to go along with the program & continue to file it's marriages with the state?
I think it is in the interests of the state to respect and honor profound adult commitments of intimacy, and in fact beyond that, a recognition of the that gays are full citizens of the land, in every sense, and to encourage monogamy.
Why? I thought we were not going to be interested in what people do in their bedrooms anymore & I say that in the broadest terms.
But that is my policy choice, and it will cost the government considerable money in federal benefits and more fraudulent "marriages" if it goes down that road. For one to suggest otherwise, is to not be honest.
It would also force private citizens into "recognition". An example would be someone that rents out a single room in their own home.