Thus said Michael Halcrow on Tue, 12 Jul 2005 18:29:01 CDT: > Each person's own religious institution should ordain ``marriages'' > according to its own terms; the state should have little to do with > it. As it now stands, it actively interferes with several religious > institutions' definitions of sacred unions between two consenting > adults. It is a violation civil rights that needs to stop.
I'm with you on this one. I've never understood why people getting married need a ``marriage license'' from the state. Shouldn't this be something you contract between you, your wife to be, your wife's father and mother and God? Whatever happened to common law marriage? Andy -- GnuPG ID 0xA63888C9 (D2DA 68C9 BB2B 26B4 8204 2219 A43E F450 A638 88C9) [-----------[system uptime]--------------------------------------------] 6:38pm up 22 days, 3:15, 1 user, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00 .===================================. | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | | Don't Fear the Penguin. | | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | `==================================='
