Making Marriage Illegal

[Smashlilman]

No one is stopping straights and gays from getting married. Just no more "government marriage licenses".

So gays can form a church called The Church of Gays, and get married to their hearts delight. Likewise, religious heterosexuals can do the same thing they've always done.

Since when do you need a church to get Married. Marriage pre-dates Christianity, Judaism, and recorded history in general. It's not a religious institution. It's kind of way Marriage exist in almost every culture on the planet and not just the ones with Abrahamic religions. It's a social secular institution that different religious institutions incorporated.

 

[Godzilla2000]

So in Oklahoma everyone suffers even heterosexuals?

 

[SV Fan]

So in Oklahoma everyone suffers even heterosexuals?

Actually quite the opposite, if they don't allow marriage, nobody suffers

 

[Godzilla2000]

Well, I personally would suffer because I do want to be married. Luckily I live in the more tempered New York State area. I'd find it a distinct challenge to prove people wrong about their negative views on marriage. It would give me no end of amusement to figure outr ways of keeping things fresh and exciting the moment I wake up. As anyone who knows me can tell you I'm a pretty unpredictable person. One day I'm quiet and chill preferring the comfort of home or the next I'm stir crazy and want to go out to a movie and something to eat. I find it a fun thing to make the mundane fun sometimes, like shopping. I'm just a grab bag of daily activities sometimes, though I do have my regiments I do like walking for fitness or those I would like to do, like learn yoga as an additive form of exercise. But I digress. All said being my husband would be an adventure in and of itself I'd hope. I have thought long and hard about this for decades and resolved that my marriage will be an exercise in using brainpower and imagination to keep it from going stale. So glad I'm not a citizen of Oklahoma because I would never be able to implement my marital experiment.

 

[Schlosser85]

I also know that marriage is a wholly Biblical construct and paradigm.

Marriage was not invented by Christians.

 

[Paradoxium]

My point is, how society wants to define marriage, should be left to that. None of this legal/political BS. Much like what some people confer as friendship, which is wildly varied. You don't need a "friendship license" from the government.

 

[hippie_hunter]

While I believe the 10th Amendment gives Oklahoma the patent right to set its own course, I also know that marriage is a wholly Biblical construct and paradigm.

The federal government has no right getting involved in defining marriages!

Pretty sure that marriage was around for thousands of years before the Bible was even written.

 

[Thundercrack85]

Pretty sure that marriage was around for thousands of years before the Bible was even written.

Blasphemy!

 

[Paradoxium]

Well, I personally would suffer because I do want to be married. Luckily I live in the more tempered New York State area. I'd find it a distinct challenge to prove people wrong about their negative views on marriage. It would give me no end of amusement to figure outr ways of keeping things fresh and exciting the moment I wake up. As anyone who knows me can tell you I'm a pretty unpredictable person. One day I'm quiet and chill preferring the comfort of home or the next I'm stir crazy and want to go out to a movie and something to eat. I find it a fun thing to make the mundane fun sometimes, like shopping. I'm just a grab bag of daily activities sometimes, though I do have my regiments I do like walking for fitness or those I would like to do, like learn yoga as an additive form of exercise. But I digress. All said being my husband would be an adventure in and of itself I'd hope. I have thought long and hard about this for decades and resolved that my marriage will be an exercise in using brainpower and imagination to keep it from going stale. So glad I'm not a citizen of Oklahoma because I would never be able to implement my marital experiment.

There is nothing stopping you from getting married, this is about making government/legally recognized marriages a thing of the past. Imagine if "Friendship licenses" were made illegal, it doesn't mean all friendships would be over.

 

[Thundercrack85]

Wait why are we arguing for the ending the fundamental institution of our society?

Because some sore losers in Oklahoma don't want gays to be able to get a certificate?

 

[Paradoxium]

It's a hilariously lame reason, to achieve a desirable result. Good enough for me.

 

[SentinelMind]

Marriage is pretty much near outlawed when liberal groups passed no fault divorce in every state.

 

[Feenix]

Marriage is pretty much near outlawed when liberal groups passed no fault divorce in every state.

Liberal groups? Aren't the highest rates of divorce among conversatives?

http://www.mediaite.com/online/puzz...-divorce-rate-among-conservative-protestants/

 

[Spooderman]

Well, parasitic housewives have more to gain through a divorce.

 

[enterthemadness]

There is nothing stopping you from getting married, this is about making government/legally recognized marriages a thing of the past. Imagine if "Friendship licenses" were made illegal, it doesn't mean all friendships would be over.

I know this is a libertarian thing, and I am Libertarian, but how would this work? People would still get married, but when the Priest or whoever is performing the ceremony....they would just leave out 'and by the power of the State/Fed Gov't'? And less paper work?

 

[TheBat812]

The point of marriage is traditionally to combine family assets, not recognize love. Anybody who wants the benefit of this union should be allowed to. Don't make it illegal though, it completely defeats the purpose.

 

[Paradoxium]

I know this is a libertarian thing, and I am Libertarian, but how would this work? People would still get married, but when the Priest or whoever is performing the ceremony....they would just leave out 'and by the power of the State/Fed Gov't'? And less paper work?

More or less, they do it for the ceremony, and ring. No paper work.

 

[MrsKent26]

What a silly idea. Just let gay people and heterosexuals get married and be done with this squabbling over something that shouldn't even be an issue anymore.