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To: Neeka who wrote (13519)	10/23/2003 2:45:23 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793572

But it can be asked; what business is it of government to get involved in this issue? I personally think it is time for government to define marriage I'm having trouble reconciling those two statements. I think your question is the most salient one re this matter. What business, indeed? While I recognize that my approach is not feasible politically, I do think it would be best all around if government got out of the marriage business altogether. As for it being time for the government to define marriage, it already has. Each state has laws governing it. Has had from the beginning. There's a lot of strange stuff going on right now in government, stuff that challenges some pretty basic understandings of the roles of government and its various branches. We have direct democracy being tried in California, challenging representative government. We have the Florida legislature stepping in to trump judicial due process. We have Congress defying the Constitution when it passes laws. We live in interesting times.

To: Neeka who wrote (13519)	10/23/2003 5:37:17 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793572

I haven't done in depth research on state regulation of marriage, but during genealogy research have noticed that people didn't get marriage licenses in the past. It appears to be a 20th century phenomenon. If so, can it truly be said that it is traditional for the state to regulate marriages? Seems to me that the regulations used to come from the churches. If people didn't want to get married in church, they just "jumped the broom." No pieces of paper.