On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 12:19 PM, G Money <[email protected]> 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:319143 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
