SomaCow

The government should not be involved in your personal life.  Period.  Marriage should not even be a religious thing.  In early Christianity, marriage was not a church thing.  It was a personal moment.  No ceremony.  Just you talking to the one you wanted to marry and say, “I marry you.”

DONE.

Then along came lawyers.  They needed a place to register who was married to whom.  The only folks that could write were in the Church, so, the Church was the record holder.

It wasn’t until the 1500’s that marriage and church/state became tied hand in hand.  The Roman Catholic Church and the Pope slapped a definition and law onto marriage.  A Catholic marriage had to be done by a “qualified” person with two qualified witnesses.  If those people were not at the wedding, the marriage didn’t count.

On the other side of the coin, the Protestants started giving the state the same official place as the priests.  So a protestant marriage was sanctioned by the state.  It was John Calvin and the Protestants that required both the Church and the State to recognize the marriage.

All of the bullshit about marriage as an institution is re-donky-less.

The idea, or the Raging Christians’ idea of what marriage is, is less than 400 years old.

Yes, people should be able to get married.  The same way they did it in the long, long ago.

If they feel compelled, go to the Church and get the blessing.  As for the state, file paperwork.  A will, a power of attorney, and a statement of shared household assets.

The tax laws could be adjusted to include “house hold” instead of dealing with spousal issues.

The divorce laws have brought things to such a level that none of the real shit matters.  “He cheated”… so fucking what, in the state of Florida, it is not grounds for divorce.  “He abused me”… those are not grounds for divorce in Florida.  “We just don’t get along”… BINGO, we have grounds for a divorce.

Under the Mickey Marriage Act of 2010, churches are still free to impose their will on their congregation.  Don’t like the church’s rules, leave the church.  But each church can define what “marriage” is in their church for their flock.

Any two people can get married.  All they do is look at each other and say, “I marry you”.  Done!  You are married.  But in the Mickey Marriage Act of 2010, marriage would be as meaningless as it is today.  We would just remove the legal ramifications of not being able to put up with someone’s shit any more.

Also under the MMA2kX, we would have the Household Alignment Amendment.  This would be a packet of paperwork that two or more people can enter to give each other right regarding personal issues.  This is open to roommates, bff’s, heteros, homos, … no dogs, no cats, and don’t even ask about the pony.

The PoP would contain a will for each person.  The will of each person would state emphatically how their assets will be divided.  The PoP Will must state the person’s wishes about life support and Resuscitation.

The PoP will include a tax form for Household Alignment.  The HA-Tax form will designate one person as the Head of the Household and allow all the parties in the Household to file a single tax return.

The PoP will include a MMA2kX-PoP stipulation sheet.  The SS will be list of your personal stipulations for the contract.  This is a tailor made list.  If you put that she cannot have sex with anyone else, then she is in breech of contract is she fucks someone else.  It is implicitly, clearly, without fuzzy language, laid out… your personal rules for being entered into a PoP contract with another person.

The PoP SS can be as restrictive or as loose as you wish it to be.

The problem with all of this… no one is that fucking open minded.