“I would rather see the state and the Church face the truth about what they are both doing in the matrimony business the way it is presently done: each meddling in the other’s affairs and (witness Massachusetts and San Francisco) managing to make a mess of it.

If I had my way, I would never perform another wedding as weddings are presently done. There is a much more appropriate role for clergy, IMO, than joining couples in legal contracts called weddings. I am thinking of this topic because not long ago, James Joyner, surveying the issue of gay marriage controversies, suggested a radical solution:
… simply do away with marriage as a governmental institution, period. Let churches marry people as they see fit—with only religious value attached to the ceremony. We could then have civil unions that the states could regulate.”

http://www.donaldsensing.com/2004_02_01_archive.html#107697265143483679

Makes sense to me.

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