Marry Me
September 25, 2005, by Ed Howes

Marriage, sanctified or profane, is an idea whose time has gone. No more
need to extend the branches on any family tree, nor maintain racial or
cultural integrity in any but societies of bigots and bullies. The melting
pot reigns supreme. No need to outlaw or enforce laws against adultery. No
need to insure the welfare of any future generation. No need to enforce
marital contracts- a brave, new world.

In our material world there is contract law, statute law, natural law and
divine law. Common law, which often incorporated divine law, has been
nullified by professionally generated statute law. The United States
Constitution is a contract. My marriage is a contract. The Ten Commandments
are contracts. When any party to a contract fails to perform to the
conditions of such contract, that contract is null and void; having no
further obligation on any original contractor or their offspring.

The U.S. Constitution bound those who agreed to its provisions until any
provision was breached. Then it bound no one and binds no one today. The
arrogance of the propertied interests who drafted the contract, declared it
to be the Supreme Law of the Land. Christians, Jews and Muslims alike, know
the difference between supreme and inferior. If men create it, the law is
inferior by definition. To hide the facts, we make inferior law public and
supreme law private. The state should display supreme law with each line
crossed out. That would more accurately describe our times and still offend
those who wish to hide supreme law altogether.

If my wife or I have nullified our marital contract, neither of us is
morally bound by it. If we have a state sanctioned contract, we are legally
bound until we obtain state nullification. If we choose to live together
without a valid contract, we are as free as any. I hear freedom will soon
rule the world.

Institutions are created to serve a purpose. When the institution no longer
serves that purpose, it becomes something very different in its nature.
Marriage once insured an extended family and family estate, which insured
successive generations. Clans, extended families and estates were at cross
purposes with the needs of the Machine Age managers for cheap labor and
physical mobility. The nuclear, two generation family was created as a new
family value. With few good models, husbands, wives and parents were cast
adrift. The nuclear family quickly devolved into the broken family. People
were no longer invested in the survival and welfare of their offspring, so
the state invested in them. The state then claims the children as government
property when they reach age eighteen. Barely a peep of protest is heard
from the people who bore and raised them to the age of state redemption. If
we do not need marriage to produce labor and soldiers, we don't need
marriage at all. As my grand dad used to say, stay single and raise your
children to do the same.

Ed Howes

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