Is it wrong that I disagree with both sides? What is any level of government doing marrying people? I'm looking at a lot of these comments and seeing "This country wasn't founded as a Christian nation! Separation of Church and State!" and so on and so forth. Well, why do you want a religious ceremony bestowed upon you, let alone from a government entity? That sounds kinda backwards to me. And this touches upon the real issue, why is government issuing marriage licenses? Why do you need to get their permission to be married? Oh wait, that's right, it was started by the Reconstruction Era South to regulate interracial marriage. Only let "the good ones" marry huh'white folk. Same thing with gun permits. Don't want the ones you don't like having arms. Eventually this poisonous thought pattern spread its way to eventually include all marriages and eventually all States. In any case, leave marriage up to the spiritual leadership, since that's what marriage is, something religious. Now, if you want some form of recognition for legal and tax purposes, that's different. You can have the State and Federal governments issue something, but don't call it marriage.
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Date: 2008-05-29 07:04 am (UTC)What is any level of government doing marrying people? I'm looking at a lot of these comments and seeing "This country wasn't founded as a Christian nation! Separation of Church and State!" and so on and so forth. Well, why do you want a religious ceremony bestowed upon you, let alone from a government entity? That sounds kinda backwards to me.
And this touches upon the real issue, why is government issuing marriage licenses? Why do you need to get their permission to be married? Oh wait, that's right, it was started by the Reconstruction Era South to regulate interracial marriage. Only let "the good ones" marry huh'white folk. Same thing with gun permits. Don't want the ones you don't like having arms. Eventually this poisonous thought pattern spread its way to eventually include all marriages and eventually all States.
In any case, leave marriage up to the spiritual leadership, since that's what marriage is, something religious.
Now, if you want some form of recognition for legal and tax purposes, that's different. You can have the State and Federal governments issue something, but don't call it marriage.