You're right that legal and religious marriage should be separated. Legal marriage is nothing more than an enforceable contract (akin to the sale of a house, employment agreement, or joint venture between two businesses). Of course, the two are so interwined in people's minds that perhaps the only way to separate them is to rename legal marriage.
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Re: Sanctity of Marriage...as if...
Date: 2006-12-03 04:42 am (UTC)From:Legal marriage is nothing more than an enforceable contract (akin to the sale of a house, employment agreement, or joint venture between two businesses).
Of course, the two are so interwined in people's minds that perhaps the only way to separate them is to rename legal marriage.