On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 14:54:50 -0600 Lonnie Olson <li...@kittypee.com> wrote:
> The > objections to building marriage into the legal system should have been > made hundreds of years ago. The decision to have marriage run by the state was made by the theocrats of the middle ages, and they didn't run focus groups or take polls. In Roman law, marriage was strictly a civil contract, with occasional enforcement by quasi-judges called jurisconsults. The theocrats took marriage over as a device to control the nobility and royalty of the day. Of course some of the nobility and royalty didn't like that; Henry VIII of England comes to mind. > I think it's way too late. Well, given the control the American government seems to want over us, I doubt it will relinquish its control over marriage easily. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
