Posted on 06/27/2015 12:09:54 PM PDT by EveningStar
Mississippi is considering pulling the plug on issuing marriage licenses altogether after the Supreme Court struck down bans on gay marriage Friday morning.
As the state's governor and lieutenant governor condemned the court's decision, state House Judiciary Chairman Andy Gipson began studying ways to prevent gay marriage in Mississippi. Governor Phil Bryant said he would do all he can "to protect and defend the religious freedoms of Mississippi." To Bryant's point of doing "all" the state could do, Gipson, who is a Baptist minister, suggested removing marriage licenses entirely.
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The left wants to destroy marriage. "Legal marriage" has just been redefined by the Supreme Court so it is worthless. Marriage (a man and a woman) is still a valid concept and term. States like Mississippi simply need to define a common law marriage as a man and a woman with no license or any other state action. There is no reason whatsoever for a marriage to be blessed by the state.
So you want your marriage to be legal for some reason.
The military does require that you be legally married, they don’t just let you tell them that you want an extra 1300 a month and free medical and school and benefits for someone.
you don’t need a church to get married
churches that only perform Biblical marriage or mosques that only perform Koranic marriages should continue to do so without harassment because homosexuals can get married by government officials or by non-Biblical churches (and liberal and moderate mosques....lol)
as there is no reason legally for a marriage to be blessed by a Church
after all, who has been marrying atheists and agnostics all these years?
Yeah I know. Thanks for the correction though. How stupid of me to think one thing and type another.
You are talking about “legal marriage” Legal marriage was just destroyed by the USSC. It can’t be salvaged. Traditional marriage will have to either be religious or not blessed (or recognized) by anyone. If some atheist or agnostic couple wants to be married they will have to find a church to marry them or start their own church or just forget about it and submit their vows into the block chain. There is now good reason to devolve marriage away from “legal marriage”.
If you don’t want your marriage to be legal, then don’t make it legal, you could do that last year, and 20 years ago and 50, and a 100 years ago, but most people want their marriage to be legal, and many, like military people, need it to be legal.
No one cares if you don’t want to make your marriage legal, they never did.
The state can specify the requirements for a common law marriage and then it is up to the couple to,satisfy those requirements which don’t necessarily include a piece of paper. But if you have a wedding in a church and the statutes don’t prohibit the church from issuing a piece of paper, then that paper could be the functional,equivalent of What we now consider a marriage license. Again, it might take some statutory changes in most states, but I don’t see why it can’t be done. It would probably mean though that more people would blow off getting the paper altogether but they could still claim common law marriage otherwise.
I assume the couple get a piece of paper that shows that they met the requirements.
I assume that if the church is allowed to issue a piece of paper, that the paper would have to be filed with the government, rather than in each individual church or Muslim mosque, or Hindu Temple, and atheist don’t have churches anyway.
Paper will exist, and the purpose of licensing will still exist, there have to be records.
“Are you joking. there is no age of consent in the Constitution. pedophilia will have to be legal too”
don’t states now define the age of consent? and, any way, what would prevent these USSC justices from declaring what age, in their collective “wisdom,” is suitable for consensual sex?
i found the following:”The ages of consent in North America for sexual activity vary by jurisdiction. The age of consent in Canada is 16. All U.S. states set their limits between 16 and 18.”
I agree.
Each couple,could,keep the paper themselves and produce it if necessary.
These are records that need to endure, there need to be copies for permanent access, not something that blows out of the teen age couples VW bug.
What is the big deal about not having a legal marriage?
Do you understand that no one makes you make you seek to make your marriage legal, so just don’t, many Americans don’t.
why? From my perspective the military is just as a lost a cause as the rest of the federal government, Might as well have everyone sign up with a designated partner and leave marriage out of it.
None of that requires the government. Could be done better privately.
Your post was a childish non-response.
States rights are dead.
The same faggot judge that said marriage was a State issue when striking down DOMA just said marriage is NOT a State issue.
At this point just pray that D.C. is nuked and soon.
Pray hard.
No state marriage license. Do the deed, get a paper signed and witnessed and then get it recorded by the state easy peasy.
I no longer care about DC or any large leftist city that will be a target of some deranged Muslim group. Not going to give money for relief, not going to sing any patriotic songs, not even going to change my routine.
If trash wants to take out trash, then have at it for all I care.
Really I never understood why married military should have been paid more than non married military. Pay them the same the non married need the $1200 extra also. Many help support family such as parents etc.
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