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Originally Posted by 4sarge  So are you saying marriages in your church are not recognized by the State. I'm saying that the politics (verbiage) changed in California because of the Government endorsed Special Interest Groups. Since the law defines and sanctions legal marriage then one would violate the law unless the law was followed (marriage license, blood test, etc) |
I am saying that a marriage should be controlled at the religious level. State should not get to require a singe thing of it because it is not their business. If the state wants to be in the business of some kind of contract that is fine. But my marriage, for instance, was a contract between me, my wife, and God. The state of Indiana should have had nothing to do with it.
But we went along with the certificate, etc., because we did not feel like fighting that war then.
State <-------------------- Apart --------------------> Marriage
Better that way.
Now to Indiana's credit, they do allow a wide variety of people to perform weddings, and I have even done one myself. But the fact that they need an "approved" person to do a religious deed is repulsive in and of itself.
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