I see marriage as a covenant between a man and woman before God. Why should the state be involved in marriage at all? Let alone trying to force me to admit something is a marriage that according to my beliefs is not a marriage. And divorce, why is the state involved in that either? If it's a union before God, how is it that some judge should have the authority to abolish that union?
A Republican state representative once suggested the nuclear option if gay marriage were ruled the law of the land: abolish marriage as a State licensed activity and replace with implicit civil contract law.
He was laughed at, scorned as a radical loon, and told to go away by the media and people on the left and right. To this day I still don't understand the opposition since what he said - and what you're saying - sounds reasonable to me.
I see marriage as a covenant between a man and woman before God. Why should the state be involved in marriage at all? Let alone trying to force me to admit something is a marriage that according to my beliefs is not a marriage. And divorce, why is the state involved in that either? If it's a union before God, how is it that some judge should have the authority to abolish that union?
A Republican state representative once suggested the nuclear option if gay marriage were ruled the law of the land: abolish marriage as a State licensed activity and replace with implicit civil contract law.
He was laughed at, scorned as a radical loon, and told to go away by the media and people on the left and right. To this day I still don't understand the opposition since what he said - and what you're saying - sounds reasonable to me.