Get Government Out of Marriage

What is marriage?

Marriage is the joining together of a man and a woman into one flesh for the purpose of being fruitful and multiplying, replenishing the earth, and subduing it.

Genesis 1: 27-28 KJV


27 So God crated man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.


It is clear from this that marriage is a command of God.  This would make it a religious institution under the jurisdiction of God and the Church, not the State.


Again, consider Genesis 2:21-24 KJV


21 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept:  and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
22 And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh:  she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife:  and they shall be one flesh.


The Bible defines marriage for us and clearly indicates that it is between one man and one woman and that after they are joined they are to be considered one flesh.


Jesus Christ, the Son of God, also made this definition of marriage clear, as it is recorded in Mark 10:6-9.


6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;
8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.
9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.


Jesus defines marriage as being between one man, and one woman.  He supports, by his statement, that marriage and divorce is a religious matter, something to be regulated by the church or God and not the State.

Do we have the right to marry?

According to the Bible, as a human species, we not only have the right to marry, we have a command from God to marry.


But does the State recognize the right of humans to marry?


According to the 16th Article of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights which was adopted by the United Nations in 1948, humans have the right to marry.

"Article 16 

1. Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.
2. Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses."  Universal Declaration of Human Rights. (2011, January 17). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 21:20, January 24, 2011, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights&oldid=408304721  

If humans have the right to marry, as the United Nations declares that they do, then they do not need permission to do it, it is a right.

If humans have the right to marry then they do not need a license from the State to marry, as it is their right.

How then did marriage licenses become the legal process for marriage in the United States?


Michael Badnarik Explains:


The first State marriage license laws passed in the United States were passed following the Civil War, as an attempt to prevent interracial marriage.  The original purpose of marriage licenses in the U.S. was in fact for the purpose of imposing racial discrimination.  Since we have moved past racial discrimination in the U.S., do we still need to have marriage licenses issued by the State?


I say NO!

I have materially supported that State mandated licensing of marriage is an infringement upon Christian religious worship, and is therefore unconstitutional, and also upon universally accepted human rights, as adopted by the United Nations.

Let's kick the State out of our marriages!

I support an amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America guaranteeing the right to marriage.