Marry Gays Or Go To Jail

[DaveC519]

BTW, for those in CO, the above sample affidavit was taken directly from the State Attorney General's website here:

http://www.coloradoattorneygeneral.g...ons#common_law

[FlamingZword]

Originally Posted by DaveC519

So, apparently here in Colorado, common-law marriage is just as legally valid as "legal" marriage, and couples can even solemnize their own ceremony. There's even a sample affidavit that couples can fill out which serves as a marriage certificate of sorts:

STATE OF COLORADO
AFFIDAVIT OF COMMON LAW MARRIAGE

We, the undersigned, attest to the following facts:

1. We are at least 18 year of age. If between the ages of 16 and 18, we have obtained proper parental or guardian consent.

2. There is no legal impediment to our marriage, including, but not limited to, a prior marriage of either party that has not been legally terminated by death or divorce.

3. We are married to each other and understand that a common law marriage holds all the rights, privileges and responsibilities of a lawful marriage. We understand that only death or divorce may terminate this marriage.

Both parties sign and have it notarized and it's considered valid just the same as a marriage certificate, only the State is not a legal party to the union.

this is good.

Jesus said "what God has joined, let no man put aside"
marriage is something that God has joined, not Caesar.
This statement by Jesus makes marriage a prerogative of the church not of the state.

Caesar has no power to join anything, it can only recognize such union.

[Aquila]

Very little about civil marriage, as it exists today, is biblical.

[KeptByTheWord]

http://www.kxly.com/news/north-idaho...iages/29267160

The Hitching Post has decided to switch to a "religious corporation" to avoid same-sex marriages.

The Coeur d'Alene city attorney confirmed in a letter Monday that ordained ministers operating a for-profit wedding chapel are in violation of a city ordinance for declining to marry same-sex couples.

The letter states that "if they are providing services primarily or substantially for profit and they discriminate in providing those services based on sexual orientation then they would likely be in violation of the ordinance."

ADF attorneys representing Donald and Evelyn Knapp explain that the letter's contention that the Hitching Post Wedding Chapel is a non-profit entity that would be exempt from the ordinance is false.