Time to get government out of marriage. I saw this coming 10 years ago, despite the 59% of Michiganders including myself voting for the ban.
I’m with you on this.
How do you plan to get the government out of custody issues?
Marriage is integral to civilization. To try to separate government from family law is an anarchist position.
To some extent these laws can be decentralized, but generally, when members of society cannot agree to the basic concepts of family and heterosexual monogamous parents as the ideal for raising children, it is time to part company. It is impossible for these competing ideologies to coexist.
The homosexual marriage issue is a smoke screen. The real goal is to punish all dissent against homosexual acts including the grooming of children to participate. The fact that all 50 states grant homosexuals rights over children as either foster parents or adoptive parents means the battle is already lost. As homosexuals further pursue children who are now safely protected by their natural parents, war is inevitable. These demons will not be exorcised without much writhing and gnashing of teeth, and probably a great deal of bloodshed.
Agreed. Make it a religious ceremony and get the gov’t out completely.
As silly as your statement of hope that America would suddenly vote to end marriage as we know it is, it doesn't make any sense, at any level.
If you want to have relationships that aren't recognized as "legal" marriage, then do it, no one is stopping you, you can have cult marriages, Islamic marriages to many women, gay marriage, gay polygamy, animal marriage, or whatever.
America is not going to end legal marriage, and replace it with nothing (aka, everything that can be thought of under the sun).
From my rooting around in history it looks like “legal” marriage was something that people tended to do for financial reasons. On the frontier people might be married by a traveling minister but not encounter a government official for years let alone officially recording their marriage.