Can’t get behind this. Marriage is one thing we need more of. Less divorce and more strong, American families that stick together. Government isn’t good, but at least it should promote marriage and family
It's also an oath taken in front of a community, to hold them both to it. That's what used to make it meaningful. If you can't just break it without suffering consequenses, then both can trust the oath.
But now, when it's so easy to up and leave your old life behind, if there's not a secular component to marriage, in the form of a contract that the state enforces, it really has no power and therefor no meaning.
Can’t get behind this. Marriage is one thing we need more of. Less divorce and more strong, American families that stick together. Government isn’t good, but at least it should promote marriage and family
Marriage is between two people and God
The government should have no say in it. Marriage licenses are just another way for them to know how to tax you.
It's also an oath taken in front of a community, to hold them both to it. That's what used to make it meaningful. If you can't just break it without suffering consequenses, then both can trust the oath.
But now, when it's so easy to up and leave your old life behind, if there's not a secular component to marriage, in the form of a contract that the state enforces, it really has no power and therefor no meaning.
If your marriage means nothing to you because the state didn’t give you a piece of paper then the problem is with you.