[kearnyirish2]

I agree with this witch, provided that the government no longer has any say in religious marriage ceremonies. We’d have healthier families if the state didn’t make it extremely risky for a guy to stick his neck out, only to find himself ten years later paying for a home he doesn’t live in, barely seeing his children that still live there with their mother and some strange man. It is time for God and Caesar to part ways on the whole marriage question; the state can have people marrying their pervert-mates or pets with the corresponding legal contract, and the Church can have marriage on their terms in a religious sense, and there should be no overlap of the two.

[denydenydeny]

I’m very suspicious of this particular trope, because it makes no sense: Of course the church doesn’t “own” marriage. The existence of civil marriage ceremonies would seem to establish this as a self-evident fact. I think something else is going on.

I think it’s a way for government to force churches to marry same-sex couples whether they want to or not.

[Gene Eric]

>> It is time for God and Caesar to part ways on the whole marriage question

I like that.

[DNA.2012]

We’d have healthier families if the state didn’t make it extremely risky for a guy to stick his neck out, only to find himself ten years later paying for a home he doesn’t live in, barely seeing his children that still live there with their mother and some strange man.

All of that happens because the government controls/licenses marriage, and thus controls the terms of the marriage contract.