Civil Marriage has been the greatest invention of the last millennium! It has ensured that women and children, abandoned by unscrupulous men, are able to avail themselves of a legal, governmental resolution mechanism without resorting to familial retribution or falling into destitution. By providing legal protection of inheritance rights it has prevented much premeditated sexual/financial fraud and abuse within society. It's stabilizing force exerted on modern family life may very well be a major source of the economic growth of the last 500 years!
Many folks see it as just another lousy government contract that can be broken and resumed as long as government says so. Also, many seem to be conditioned think that marriage comes from the govenment, to the point they easily accept impossibilities like “gay marriage” as long as the governmnet says it can exist.
Do you think a piece of paper from the gov’t makes two people married? Who is more married, a man and a woman who are married in their faith or two men with a piece of paper from the government?
If marriage was controlled by folk’s faiths, I don’t think that so many would accept the impossibility of “gay marriage” today.
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