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RE: Oklahoma Republican wants to make secular marriage impossible.
January 24, 2015 at 3:31 pm
It strikes me as weird too. Why exactly do I need to stay with someone for the next eighty years of my life if I get married in my twenties? And some people even expect you to marry the person before you've even lived in the same house with each other. No sex. No cohabitation that might tempt you to have sex. They say some couples can do it, but that's probably because they were browbeaten into staying together. This is why domestic abuse cases come up. they're married, and they're expected to stay married for the rest of their lives, so the friction bulds up until they start hitting each other.
If you can manage to get along for several decades, and die as good friends and lovers, then great. Good for you. Not everyone is the same, though.
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RE: Oklahoma Republican wants to make secular marriage impossible.
January 24, 2015 at 3:35 pm
This is distressing. I plan to get married soon, and I don't want a priest involved.
Fuck him.
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RE: Oklahoma Republican wants to make secular marriage impossible.
January 24, 2015 at 3:36 pm
Surely this has no legs. It's all out bonkers.
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RE: Oklahoma Republican wants to make secular marriage impossible.
January 25, 2015 at 5:22 am
(January 25, 2015 at 5:14 am)Huggy74 Wrote: (January 23, 2015 at 4:54 pm)Esquilax Wrote: Under his proposal, judges and county clerks would be unable to sign marriage licenses that have not first had the approval of a religious representative, who in his world would just deny all gays that right as a matter of course.
Look up the history of the marriage license in America.
Marriage has always been a private contract between families. Not until the middle ages did the government start to regulate marriage (e.g. seeking permission to marry from your liege lord). Marriage licenses as a requirement was instituted in America to prevent miscegenation (interracial marriages), the whole concept of the marriage license is based on discrimination.
There are plenty of jurisdiction where simple cohabitation is enough evidence for marriage (common-law marriage).
Bollocks.
Every Western Nation requires wedding certification. I know we do in the UK and I looked at getting hitched in France at one time, (we were trying to get married in Paris but you need to live there for 6 months first). It's nothing to do with interracial marriages and just what every nation does to so they know your status for tax and census reasons.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
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RE: Oklahoma Republican wants to make secular marriage impossible.
January 25, 2015 at 10:01 am
Oklahoma doesn't recognize common law marriage.
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RE: Oklahoma Republican wants to make secular marriage impossible.
January 25, 2015 at 11:34 am
At the rate they're going soon all marriage will be illegal. Cause it's so sacred.