I'm open to discussion on this, one way or the other.
My default position seems to be: I am highly skeptical of civil marriage.
Right now, a man can shack up with 7 different women at once and engage in incredibly hedonistic conduct every night.
They can call it marriage between themselves.
They can probably get someone calling themselves a priest to officiate their union.
Does the fact that they don't have a government-issued marriage license change their identical-to-polygamous-marriage pattern of life?
Though I am a firm supporter of free, faithful, sacred fertile union of one man and one woman -— I too wonder how the federal govt. could stop polygamy. I don’t mean that they should *approve* and *license* it, I just mean why should they butt into a private contractual agreement?
I’m open to discussion on this, one way or the other.
My default position seems to be: I am highly skeptical of civil marriage.
Yes, that simply baffles me.
I highly doubt there is a single person here on FR who would deny that marriage - in the God given sense of one man and one woman made one flesh - is a good and right and just thing.
Yet government intervening in the discussion? I know the intervention is pro family, pro Christian and pro life, and personally I approve, but it is still a precedent for interference of the government in your personal life.