To: cripplecreek
What I don’t get here is “Why bother with a church?”
By that I mean, if one doesn’t get a marriage legally registered, then as far as the legal mechanisms of the state, the couple is not married. And since the “church marriage” doesn’t change that state’s position on it (without being duly registered and recorded), why bother with a church marriage, when people THEMSELVES can do the same thing, totally apart from any church.
I really don’t know why someone “needs” a church to do that, unless it’s just for a picture album.
34 posted on
02/19/2015 4:40:43 PM PST by
Star Traveler
(Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
To: Star Traveler
And I don’t understand this desperate clinging to the state.
People living in frontier states often got married by traveling preachers and went for years without getting marriage licenses if they got them at all.
If I get married I will forego the license hand have an attorney draw up a contract to lay out ownership of property and division of wealth etc.
42 posted on
02/19/2015 4:59:35 PM PST by
cripplecreek
("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
To: Star Traveler
"I really dont know why someone needs a church to do that, unless its just for a picture album."
For the Catholic and Orthodox churches, marriage is considered to be a sacrament ordained by God; a marriage before a justice of the peace is not considered to be a valid marriage in the eyes of the church.
Protestants have tended to have a more secular attitude towards marriage even if they accept so-called "biblical" principles concerning marriage. I don't think most Protestants are required by church law to be married before a clergyman. Correct me if I'm wrong.
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