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Originally Posted by Digging4Truth
Let me chime in on this row of positive responses you have going.
Amen... great post.
To add a few of my thoughts...
The short sighted view that many people take is... control them... they are bad... or that is bad...
The government that can stop people that you don't want to be married from being married can, some day, force you to marry those you don't want to marry.
Then people will wonder how the government ever got this kind of power... you gave it to them... back when they were singing your tune. It mesmerized you into not thinking it out.
There are 2 sides to every coin. We forget that all too soon.
If we are to fight against marriages such as these... let us fight against them in the church. The world is, well, the world and sinners... you guessed it... sin.
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It seems like you've really constructed a false dilemma here. American government isn't a "they" it's a "we" (even if special interests rule the day from time to time). Government regulates marriage at the state level because
we wanted it that way.
In over 200 years of state regulation over the issuance of marriage licenses can you think of
a single case where the state forced someone to take out a license with another party against their will? It has never happened. The license is issued when two starry eyed youngsters show up at the courthouse. You can't get a marriage license any other way.
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