Originally posted by: LordMagnusKain
Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Originally posted by: LordMagnusKain
Define the purpose of a marriage
Recognition of the covenant between a man a woman and God to spend the rest of their life as one flesh.
Bullsh!t, Your God has nothing to do with the institution of Marriage. Right now it is considered for the most part as a Civil Union between a Man and a Women. The religious aspect of it is just ceremonial!
"Marriage" is the ceremonial aspect that recognizes the covenant between a man a woman and God.
The covenant between a man a woman and God is not created when the justice of the peace says "you are now married" nor when the priest says "i now pronounce you man and wife" nor with breaking glass, nor any other religious thing people do.
But even without that ceremony you could honestly say 'i am married' if you are referring to the spiritual covenant between yourself someone of another sex and God.
I'm against misinforming people in regards to what marriage is, so i belive in removing the right to say someone is 'married' from the state. I'm also for removing the legal recognition of a marriage from the sate. In seeing that we still need communal property for all sorts of reasons *even non-sexual ones* i think we should allow communal property contracts between any number of people of any sex, but none of those should be able to be in more than one contract.