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A couple shacking up and having babies out of wedlock, and refusing to marry, aren't practicing Christianity in any way, shape or form. They way they are living seems to be violating Jesus Christ's most emphatic teachings and commandments on marrige, adultery and fornication.

I think the Town is absolutely right in asking them to get married to legitimize their family and bring a respectable example into the community. If more Towns had this courage then we'd see a lot less of this sort of degredation of the family, (and the female body), in America.

You're assuming that they even consider themselves Christian. It's none of the town or its' residents' business if the couple is married. Infact, all of them are related by blood, as they share common children. How about this slippery slope. The town decreeing that they be married and/or live as a family in a 'Christian' way is the first step in setting a state decreed religion.

"The town decreeing that they be married and/or live as a family in a 'Christian' way is the first step in setting a state decreed religion."

Excuse this Christian for using non-Christian terminology, but that's pure bull$hit. The country was founded on Christian morals and values, which are not doctrines or dogmas. The Founding Fathers wrote that our rights are 'inalienable' because they come directly from the Creator. All Western law springs directly from the Ten Commandments and the morality they espouse. Morals and values that stem from the Christian faith do not equal a religion, but rather they uphold man's integrity, give us a purpose in life, and keep men dignified, honest and free. Even the deists and marginal Christians of America's founding era understood this, and that's why until this past generation one could find symbols and vestiges of the Christian religion in nearly every single public building, whether Town Library, Town Hall, City Hall, State Court, Senate, White House or Supreme Court. Public school books of early America taught Christian morals and often quoted from Scripture to source these moral lessons.

But it's like I said in my initial post, most Americans have taken the poisenous bait that religion is evil in government, have swallowed it whole and as a result have coughed up our souls. Don't dare complain to anyone that our freedoms are rapidly eroding, because your mentality is the reason why. You separate religion from government and you will eventually get Communism.