Even better...though that is essentially what a marriage cert is. All a marriage cert is saying is that this couple passes the legal requirements to get married. Now it is up to the couple to find an person who is allowed to certify the union...making sure that it isn't forced, etc.. This could be a religious official, a judge, a ship's captain, etc... The problem comes in that this part is controlled by the state, not the federal government. That is why in some states, they have requirements that the minister performing the marriage actual be ordained through a church university or other states simple that you recognize the person as a minster and everything in between.
-----Original Message----- From: Cameron Childress [mailto:camer...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 12:47 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Have to wonder about which family values the Republicans promote On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 12:19 PM, G Money <gm0n3...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. How about this - let the government grant civil unions to any two individuals who want the legal benefits (and burdens) of being contractually bound to another person, heterosexual or otherwise. Then if you want to be married, go to a church. Let the church control marriage as a ritual and they can force you to go to all the classes and jump through all the hoops they want. -Cameron ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:319173 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
