Why is govt. involved in ANY marriage? Gay or Straight, it’s a church issue or an individual issue, not a state or fed gov issue. As a conservative, I don’t care what adult individuals decide to do with their private lives. It’s not a political issue to me.
because government has always been involved in marriage, it was always a civil thing. Heck the “puritans” who settled the first colonies didn’t even consider marriage to be a religious thing.
Amen.
Civil marriage was first organized by ancient jews something like 5,000 years ago. This was their best bet to civilize human beings. They set the ground work for modern civilization as we know it.
Marriage is not a “religious” thing, it is a societal thing, a civilizational thing. Even the puritans who came to America did not think it was a religious thing but a civil, and the church was the center of pretty much everything back then.
It is the foundation of civilization, those who want it trapped between walls of a church are cheapening it