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.
-----Original Message----- From: Kris Sisk [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 1:55 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Have to wonder about which family values the Republicans promote > Why? The purpose of marriage has changed as our society has changed. > We no longer have to harness the wives and children to the plow to > get > in the crop any more. Nor do we need to have 15 or 20 kids to ensure > that enough of them survive into adulthood in order to take care of > us > when we're too old to haul the plow etc. > > As for altering the divorce rate, I think that we're going about it > the wrong way. currently divorces are difficult to obtain, while > marriages are very easy (in some places there are drive through > wedding chapels). We ought to do the opposite, make divorce very easy > and marriage very difficult to obtain. That way those people who are > very serious about marriage and are willing to make the real > commitment will still be married while those who are not will not tie > the knot. I consider divorce to be a Bad Thing. Even if the purpose for marriage has changed I don't believe it should ever become something you just throw away when it starts to get inconvienent. It's supposed to be forever, kids and plows or not. That said, I like that idea. My wife and I were required to jump through significantly more hoops than most couples because our pastor insisted on it. Making something like that mandatory across the board could help a lot. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:319111 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
