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Originally Posted by Pliny
Since you cannot have a reasonable conversation I will now bow out and simply ignore anything else you have to say. Prov. 26:4. |
A "reasonable" conversation...???
YOU are the one advocating using the police power of the STATE to regulate a common natural right. The STATE has no business regulating marriage. Marriage was always a private contract between individuals and families before STATISTS stepped in and used the police power of GOVERNMENT to try to prevent marriage between different classes and races. Marriage should be returned to the private domain wherein various communities, churches, institutions, and families can define it for themselves. And any institution is free to recognize their marriages or not.
I firmly believe that you have the right to denounce any form of marriage you wish. However... you DON'T have the right to use the police power of GOVERNMENT to force your interpretation of marriage upon me or any other free citizen of the United States.
I believe that your STATIST desire to use the GOVERNMENT to control something so private between free individuals is
unreasonable. According to your logic... the STATE could ban marriage altogether to institute a nationwide draft of all males. Rome did it. And if you remember a bishop by the name of Valentinius stood against it and married people illegally. Three cheers for St. Valentine!!!... a man who truly understood that the STATE has no authority with regards to marriage.