On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Eric Roberts < ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote:
> > Marriage is supposed to be forever if that is the agreement in your faith. > What about faiths that have short term marriage agreements that you renew > as > long as the couple wishes to stay together? The law shouldn't regulate > marriage beyond the property and visitation issues, and if there are kids > involved, the support and parental rights/privileges issues. Beyond that, > if there are no other laws that prohibit it, then the government shouldn't > stick its nose in it. > Temporary or forever, marriage is an institution which has been deemed important to the health of society. So the law should require anyone wanting a marriage license to take some classes, or go through some sort of "training", before receiving their license and all of the property and visitation issues that you mentioned. If marriage is NOT important to the health of society, then none of this is necessary and the high divorce rate shouldn't be of any concern to anyone. -- The suburbs have no charms to soothe The restless dream of youth ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:319120 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
