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If Government were NOT involved with Marriage  

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1/15/2011 9:01 pm
If Government were NOT involved with Marriage

I am prompted to write about marriage for a number of reasons: More than just establishing that religion is the purview of marriage and the government's involvement is the usual - power and greed, marriage is a convention that is assumed. A minority of those entering marriage do so with the religious conviction that they are doing it to unite their souls for a lifetime. That's the religious position. Most enter it because it is the convention. Families assume and expect it. Mothers pressure their daughters (and sons). An industry is built around making the bride a 'queen' for the wedding day.

Some marriage is for citizenship. Some marriage is for money. Some marriage is for security. The government wants control.

There are numerous "marriage arrangements" from strict monogamism to "open marriage". Then there's wife and husband swapping.

There are various views of the individual entering marriage and various views as couples enter marriage. Often the individual's view of marriage is not the couple's view. They each have different views. Some times they recognize that some times they don't. Often times one or the other or both change their view after "signing up".

Marriage is an issue in our society. It is made an issue by individuals each insisting that all follow his or her view or concept of marriage.

That very fact precludes us from a common sense solution: Get the government totally out of marriage. Let each individual who chooses marriage get into the religion that agrees with him or her. And then let each mind his or her own business.

There is a segment of society who is marriage prescribers. They assert their version of family values and the place of marriage is paramount. Single parent families are now in the majority. The breach of monogamy is equally prevalent among the two groups. In the family values group the breach is cheating and hypocrisy. In the other group it may be either neither or both. The point is marriage is a convention. It is defined in various ways. It means different things to different people. And people don't even follow their own concept at times.

Returning marriage to the purview of religion would make it voluntary rather than expected or assumed. Removing it from the auspices of government would diminish one set of people from prescribing it for another. Importantly it would allow people to enjoy sexuality more openly and honestly.

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