marriage is dead
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- mr_snuggles0
I will never marry again, unless I actually get the russian I ordered this time...
- kezza_20
there is nothing about religion in our marriage day. You can completely separate it, and rather easily.
- version30
marriages need to be annulled in the eyes of god, you have to be ordained by a church to even marry someone so to say "nothing about religion" may be a smidge off
- ********0
there is nothing about religion in our marriage day. You can completely separate it, and rather easily.
kezza_2
(Mar 13 06, 08:27)I'm not aware of that then. How completely??
- blaw0
i'm three months from 10 years of marriage and, i gotta say, i really dig it.
my wife, on the other hand, is married to me and may have an alternate opinion on the topic.
:)
- madirish0
marriages need to be annulled in the eyes of god, you have to be ordained by a church to even marry someone
version3
(Mar 13 06, 08:29)says who?!? this is without question, not true in all states in the US.
- ********0
That's my issue with it kOna. Marriage needs to be divorced from the Church to give any real meaning to me. I'd feel I was belittling someone else's religion by getting married. Further to that, it's discriminatory against people like me in terms of tax breaks.
The whole thing turns me off.
It's great it works for you though. Keep up the good work i guess!
determinedmoth
(Mar 13 06, 08:25)Then go to Vegas and spend $20 to get married by Elvis if that works for you.
And, when you speak of Church, are you just referring to "Catholic" churches?!? Because I have a wedding later this year for an Indian wedding and from what I'm understanding, it's quite 'churchy' too.
- valentim0
the strenght of marketing sells what seems impossible, maybe
- ********0
Then go to Vegas and spend $20 to get married by Elvis if that works for you.
kOna
(Mar 13 06, 08:32)No I can't fucking stand Elvis!
Vegas is horrific. I hope never to go there..
- Jaline0
I don't know what kind of marriage I'm going to have. I know my family will want a Hindu one, so we'll see. I still don't know what I believe in.
- kezza_20
It's a civil ceromony(ie a ceremony purely for the purposes of law) performed in a non- religious environment (a hotel) by some-one who isn't a relious leader/preacher. Non of the wording in the ceromony has 'in the eyes of god' or 'honour and obey'.
I am completely appathetic to relgion, my partner has never been baptised, so we got the wedding we wanted.
- version30
says who?!? this is without question, not true in all states in the US.
madirish
(Mar 13 06, 08:32)this maybe true but i am in the bloody tampon red state smack in the middle of the country
here they deny teaching evolution to children in schools so I may have a skewed opinion
but i do know that to perform a marriage ceromony in this state you must be ordained, that's a fact, and a dumb one at that
- ********0
i'm not wanting to come off negative, i think it's great it still works for people.
i just see my complete lack of rights with my current situation as an injustice - one only I can fix by getting married. That's where it's wrong for me.
- kezza_20
well in the uk the state was separated from the church a long time ago. So you could get married in a church, but if you dont go to the town hall and register it, it isnt valid.
Law trumps religion here. To get divorcd, you go to a court of law, not a church tribunal, so again no church in that unfortunate ceromony either.
- mr_snuggles0
shiit, I thought we were talking about gay marriage...that's the only kind I was familiar with...
- madirish0
gotcha v3. that sucks for sure and i think that "fact" is a horrible one as well.
- Jaline0
I think it's a Canadian thing, Snuggles ;)
- version30
"y'all niggaz is gay"
-Riley
- ********0
Moth, once you stop thinking that the world is out to get you then you'll finally be able to be happy and relax. Maybe even get laid... who knows.
- paraselene0
i say chuck it out, along with the baby and the bathwater. it's a relic from a proto-agrarian state that viewed women as chattel currency.
from that perspective, i can see how the civil institution is more pernicious even than the religious one.
all that said, however, i happen to be a hardcore monogamist. each to their own, i suppose.