Government cannot be left out of marriage. Too many things involved like property, custody of children, etc. Marriage is the basis of our civil, as well as religious, society.
“Too many things involved like property, custody of children, etc. Marriage is the basis of our civil, as well as religious, society.”
Those reasons are why marriage and families are a thing of the past. Same-sex “marriages” produce 0 children, so I guess we’ll keep importing our next generations from abroad.
Contract law could be used to handle most of the mentioned issues such as is done in sui juris marriages(common-law marriages). Remove the State from the ‘marriage’ business and have contract civil unions be their domain while placing ‘marriage’ back into the religious realm.
Government cannot be left out of marriage. Too many things involved like property, custody of children, etc...”
Government can’t be left out of divorce. Division of marital property and custody of children becomes an issue only if the marriage breaks up. Jesus taught that divorce is wrong. 1 Corinthians Chapter 7 verses 10 and 11. Government can be left out of marriage.
It’s time the churches stopped caring about their tax exempt status anyway and are free to teach the truth. The early church never worried about having to water down their doctrine over man made non profit status garbage.