[xzins]

It is incomplete, and that makes it incorrect.

The whole point of recognizing marriage is a legal protection for women bearing children.

As a pastor, can I engage in civil disobedience and just marry folks in the eyes of God? Sure. But, if I have a supportive governmental system that also wants to protect that marriage for rational reasons, such as because the nuclear family is the basic building block of society, then I’m enjoined by the Apostle Paul’s summary about good laws in Romans 13 to support such a good law. For about good government, Paul says “he is God’s servant to do you good”.

[riverdawg]

What legal protection is now afforded women who bear children by state-sanctioned marriage that cannot be granted in the common law of contracts or current child-support law?

[Westbrook]

> Apostle Paul’s summary about good laws in Romans 13

As an exercise, contrast the government in Romans 13 to that in Revelation 13.