Speaking of civil disobedience

and/or husbands you have. It's none of my business.

The US wouldn't let Utah become a state until they passed a law against polygamy.

As for preachers marrying two men or women, that is their prerogative. I know some that won't marry mixed race couples (remember I'm a Southern Baptist). I don't even care if some establishments won't bake a wedding cake for them (this happens in both Christian and Muslim bakeries, not sure about Jewish ones). I wouldn't sue; I would just go elsewhere and tell everyone about my experience. They would get more business from some and less from others.

I don't know what five nice Catholic boys are going to rule but hopefully it won't be on religious beliefs like Hobby Lobby.

If so, you need to leave that church, it's from Satan.

there are so many interpretations of the same book?..."the Bible"

What are ya gonna do about that?

Burn some?

Which ones?

Which you would find if you studied it with the same open mind you brought to your chemistry textbook.

show passages, because I'm not a member of the "Church of What's Happening Now". Real gospel, not Social gospel. The word of God instead of the wordiness of some "reverend". The Truth, instead of "What I Want it To Be". Not my will, but God's.

They can just "shack up"

has both a religious meaning and a meaning for the civil law. For example, here in The Netherlands if you're married a child is automatically a child of the man, but if you're not married the father has to go to some legal procedure for the child to become his child officially.

So getting a child is one of the reasons see people (religious or not, same gender or not) start thinking about marrying when they start thinking about getting a child together. And that usually is quite a few years after they started living together.

Kees

who found out his "Best Friend With Benefits" was with child, he could walk away without any responsibility whatsoever...no DNA test or paternity suit?

But then the mother should find a lawyer to see if some agreement about money can be made. Luckily, this doesn't happen often, I think.

Kees

Which in this case (and similar here) offer $ protection for the woman and the child.

turns children into commodities, while denying nature at the same time.

and then go their separate ways.

They could get married...then get a divorce,

They are living their life...not yours.

Wait a minute, more and more of them are.

guess what? We don't call that "marriage". It might can be called "living in a sinful condition".

Using the "Royal We" again are We?

The principle of common-law marriage was affirmed by the United States Supreme Court in Meister v. Moore (96 U.S. 76 (1877)), which ruled that Michigan had not abolished common law marriage merely by producing a statute establishing rules for the solemnization of marriages.

It's the union of husband and wife in the eyes of God.

people were so widespread in areas that hadn't been 'established' very much that preachers weren't readily available. Couples vowed to each other in front of others that they were 'married' and everyone recognized it as 'legal' in their community. Usually, once a preacher turned up, those vows were then confirmed and actually made legal by someone in authority to do so. Common-law marriage was a convenience accommodated across the USA at that time. Many states didn't go back and repeal/revoke common-law status because it wasn't anything done frequently once towns and cities became more established because people had more 'morals' and the need for 'convenience' was pretty much wiped out.

We have so many laws that go back into the 1800's and earlier still on our books that it's scary when you think about it today because some crazy prosecutor with an agenda will invariably pull out one of those laws in order to get a conviction of any kind against someone that he/she otherwise couldn't take to trial. Adultery, sodomy, alienation of affections, etc. Most are totally ridiculous however, such as horses had the right of way over pedestrians and even cars as they were invented.

It's also a man marrying his brother's widow and a woman marrying her rapist and the king having 700 wives and men having children with their slaves or wives' handmaidens

But any of this is moot. We are not a Christian or Muslim or Jewish nation; we are a secular nation that welcomes all religions.

Marriage is what SCOTUS says it is, just like civil rights are what SCOTUS says they are.

Genesis is the history of man and God 'from the beginning'; no "other religions or for atheists" at that time. You might compare the rules of the others and look for similarities, to help answer your question.

Since we're neutral on political matters (we already have a government; Mt 6:9,10) you'll find few if any of us as magistrates, especially where that's an elective office. So, no gay marriage ceremonies for us.
And we're sort of the poster boys for 'civil disobedience'. Hitler says "Sieg Heil!" but we don't. Go to jail or death? Got precedent for that. Dan ch. 3. But we're always civil, except to James.
Scripture trumps Caesar, for us. Acts 5:29.

I couldn't have done it without her help.

She was aiding and abetting "an idiot".

perhaps we could substitute "unlearned" instead?
Stay here long enough, and maybe you WILL learn.

Not MY opinion....Just passing on another persons opinion.

"unlearned" is also not MY opinion,

Would you like me to add YOUR opinion to some of my future posts?

Stay here long enough, and maybe you WILL learn

I see you're back on your Grasshopper theme.

Do you think I've mastered Google Search?