WatertheTree
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- Sep 9, 2011
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If you give government the authority to arbitrarily define marriage between a man and a woman, then you give government the same authority to change its mind and arbitrarily define marriage between a man and a man or whatever else it wants.
Government has no authority to define marriage. Individuals and their churches or whatever organization they belong to can set their own criteria for marriage. Nobody has to accept the criteria they make, but they have a right to make it and believe it nonetheless.
The solution to protect marriage is to get government out of it entirely and abolish the marriage license. Marriage is a private social matter, not a government granted privilege. Any legal benefits of marriage can be defined in private contracts just like anything else in the private sector.
As long as we have divorce, the government will be involved with legal, civil marriage. Libertarian wet dream that will NEVER come true.
All divorce is is the legal splitting of assets. Be the assets equity or debt. That is the only reason the government should be involved, and that is just because people cannot be civil so a judge needs to oversee it.
you get the 'dependent on government' award for the day.