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Originally posted by Cloudbringer:
Ok, so how many of you 'marriage is outdated' people who think it is only for 'legal' purposes are married? Why not just live with someone and create a legal contract for your living arrangements?
I guess I won't be asking many of you to congratulate me on my nuptials next spring! 
I realize the legal system sees it as a contractual agreement and the church sees it as much more than that. Personally, I think of marriage as the WHOLE thing, both a binding of two people in law and in spirit. So I can't really 'divide' it up the way some people suggest we do it.
It will be interesting to watch as the ripples from the MA ruling spread, though.
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Married 10 sometimes rough, sometimes great years. For me it's easy to seperate the two parts of marriage, because the concept of Marriage has not changed in 2000 years at my church, and the concept of marriage has not stayed the same for 10 minutes at my town hall (or at least it seems that way sometimes). I support the gubberment getting out of the marriage business partly because they should not be in the religon game, and based on recent rulings they should also not be in the morality game (of course they ARE in that game, but apparently they can pick and choose how to participate). SO, let them handle the legal aspect of marriage and see if they can avoid screwing that up any worse than it already is. Leave the spiritual side to whatever church you choose, the church never had much to do with the legal aspect anyway.
BTW : Good luck... it's a wild ride!
[ 12-04-2003, 03:03 PM: Message edited by: Thoran ]