“It’s not just the money, also note they will accomplish NOTHING.”
I completely disagree! The government should be totally “divorced” from any role whatsoever in marriage. For me, getting them out of the business of “issuing licenses” and “approving” who can perform marriages would be a plus.
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How do you remove the concept of legal marriage?
If you don’t want your marriage to be legal, then don’t seek it, nobody cares.
Americans have always called themselves married, even when it wasn’t legal, if they wanted to.
The government maybe should, but it won’t. The fact of the matter is marriage is a legal term with legal ramifications. Has been for a long time. As long as it’s a legal term the government will be in the licensing and approving business. If you want the government completely out of it then you need to accept a world where your spouse has ZERO legal standing, not to your property, not to your health decisions, not to ANYTHING, unless you go through a lot of paperwork.
That’s really the issue here. Do you want to have to go through a bunch of contracts to gives spouses useful legal standing during times of crisis? Or do you want it to be a nice simple “marriage license”?