Governments sustained attack against religion: Marriage

[Ben McClintock]

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Government has used marriage to control religions for hundreds of years. For just one example, for hundreds of years in England all that was required (still government control of marriage over one's religious views) was that it be performed by an Anglican priest. Then the Marriage Act of 1753 preventing "secret marriages" requiring licenses (government permission) to marry. Even tough government control of religion through marriage is centuries if not thousands of years old, Utah is the model example here in the United States.

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[Ben McClintock]

"Now if our marital relations are not religion, what is? …I do not believe that the Supreme Court of the United States nor the Congress of the United States has any right to interfere." -History of Utah, John Taylor Papers, 2:32-33

[Sirocco]

what is marriage to an atheist then?

[Ben McClintock]

The same thing as baptism

[Bee Prepared]

Replacing God with government is a big mistake.

[Sirocco]

The same thing as baptism

So nothing?