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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Ok, so how many of you 'marriage is outdated' people who think it is only for 'legal' purposes are married?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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great post, cloudy.
i'm married, love my wife dearly, and believe in the sanctity of our relationship being one of heart, mind, body, and spirit. no church or gubmint can say or do anything about it. we are, and that's that.
at the same time, i do believe the marriage institution as currently used is outdated. i'd be all in favour of separating church-marriage from legal-marriage, and even breaking the latter into a series of contractural agreements, such as financial, power of attorney, etc.
that said, there are benefits with the gubmint or church recognising your union, and as such we'd like to take advantage of those benefits. personally, i'd be happy to do so as a series of 4 contracts about different parts of our lives as much as a single marriage doco - and the former seems much more appropriate as times change.
lastly, congrats on your nups. [img]graemlins/balloons.gif[/img] whenever i have friends tell me they're getting married, i always hope they've found what i (we) have. [img]smile.gif[/img] just be sure to take care of each other.