reply to post by intrepid
Do i not have the right to my religious beliefs? The government does not have the constiutional ability to supress religious beliefs , and their hand
in marriage , which is a religious ritual is discriminating on Christian beliefs. Same-Sex couples , even if the church agreed , should still not see
the marriage because the government took the definition of marriage from the religious ritual of the Christian marriage.
A NEW definition should be given to same-sex marriage , becasue the Christian definition - from which it was taken and accepted into government
benefits , does not include same-sex marriage.
Civil Unions should - if you want to say marriage as a personal term , then whatever. The governemnt should not change a definition and tradition that
is part of a religion.
When i say government , it could mean either state / or the federal government. I am bad about saying governemnt when i some time means the states. So
if you would be so kind to apply to either or.
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The status of common-law marriage in the United States varies by state. In Meister v. Moore, 96 U.S. 76 (1877), the United States Supreme Court,
relying on Hutchins v. Kimmell, 31 Mich. 126 (1875) ruled that Michigan had not abolished common-law marriage merely by producing a statute which
established rules for the solemnization of marriages, because it did not require marriages to be solemnized: it required only that, if a marriage was
solemnized, it could be solemnized only as provided by law. Otherwise, the court found that, as the right to marry existed at common law, the right to
marriage according to the tradition of that common law remained valid until such time as state law affirmatively changed it. The Court did not find it
necessary to pass special legislation specifically outlawing the common law contract of a marriage, but it was sufficient for a state's general
marriage statutes to clearly indicate no marriage would be valid unless the statutory requirements enumerated were followed.
While a number of U.S. states recognize either same-sex marriage, or domestic partnerships with the same legal incidents, as marriage, no U.S. state
except Iowa, where the law is untested, currently recognizes same sex common-law marriages. The Federal Defense of Marriage Act permits any state to
not recognize same-sex marriages from another state, and provides that the federal government will not recognize any same-sex marriages.
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