Get the State Out of Marriage

Townhall.com ^ | January 27, 2014 | Mark Baisley

[Biggirl]

Keep it to the place of worship.

[Ray76]

‘Bout time!

[SoConPubbie]

Keep it to the place of worship.

No Thanks.

I wonder what the Founders would say to that capitulation if they were standing in front of you today?!

[SatinDoll]

What capitulation? Marriage isn’t mentioned in the U.S. Constitution.

[cripplecreek]

My militant lesbian cousin is now hospitalized over her depression.

She won her great battle for same sex marriage in Minnesota, “married” her girlfriend and found that nothing had really changed. What she did find was that without the fight, she and her “wife” no longer have anything in common to bind them together.

[fwdude]

Might as well demand that the state “get out of the burlary, theft, robbery, rape and murder businesses” as well.

[Mr. Jeeves]

That’s only fair - since it was conservatives who invited the state into marriage in the first place - in exchange for a tax break. Once that happened, it was inevitable that everybody who could count to two would demand equal access.

[cripplecreek]

I can’t find any evidence of state issued marriage licenses till shortly before the civil war in Kansas. If I recall correctly it was a legal maneuver having to do with whites marrying blacks and statehood.

[SoConPubbie]

What capitulation? Marriage isn’t mentioned in the U.S. Constitution.

That's right, it wasn't, either way.

Neither was abortion.

You skipped right over what I posted.

Do you think the Founders would approve?

Or do you think they didn't include Marriage as an issue with regards to Homosexuality and other perversions because they could not see a time where such perversions would be included in the definition of Marriage?

Do you think if they were alive today that they would have included provisions for protecting human life at all stages and strongly defined marriage?

Or are you a Libertarian who believes that morality has no place either in natural or constitutional law.

Do you think the founders thought that way?

[RightOnTheBorder]

Tell me again why it is capitulation to reduce the size and scope of government.

[ansel12]

If you don’t care if your marriage is legal, then don’t comply with the law, it is that simple.

This would merely mean that there is no such thing as marriage, which is silly, all societies have to deal with marriage law, and always have.

[SoConPubbie]

Tell me again why it is capitulation to reduce the size and scope of government.

For one simple reason, as the founders themselves were aware and stated, this form of government, a Democratic Republic, was only meant for a Christian people, and if this nation walks away from God, it will fall.

[greene66]

As long as the federal government of the US equates two perverted homos as the same as a true husband-and-wife, whether via tax breaks or military housing... America, my own country, can just go burn in hell. That’s my bottom line. Not whether some individual state drops marriage.

[ansel12]

I can’t find any evidence of state issued marriage licenses till shortly before the civil war in Kansas. If I recall correctly it was a legal maneuver having to do with whites marrying blacks and statehood.

Marriage licenses have existed for many centuries, since the 1300s, and before that Banns, and before that other formal actions that made marriage legal, Thomas Jefferson obtained a marriage license, George Washington paid for the license for his favorite nephew.

[RightOnTheBorder]

Burglary, theft, robbery, rape and murder are all crimes against persons. Without the state to enforce the priveledges and responsibilities of marriage I don’t see how two homos engaging in some silly ceremony affects anyone other than those foolish enough to attend.

[cripplecreek]

If you say so but I haven’t seen them.

[Jewbacca]

Marriage is a religious rite.

Israel has adopted this practice. There is no civil marriage and the effect of marriage is very limited legally.

This has prevented governmental interference with our free exercise of religion.

[Texas resident]

Marriage is between a man, a woman and God.
Government gets involved so that they can collect on licenses. For the money. And for social experiments.

And that is that.

[trisham]

This is not Israel.