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To: E who wrote (31466)	2/25/2004 7:27:59 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 793824

What appeals to me about getting the government out of marriage is that there's no issue about what the government sanctions or doesn't sanction. That gets out of the immediate problem. Religious institutions have their own rules, their own instructions of couples, etc. I think it's a good thing to have institutions guiding and screening couples. Marriage is serious business. We could end up with better marriages. And of course there's always my libertarian reason, which is that marriage isn't any of the state's business. Let the marketplace take care of it. Would government records be kept anyplace, the way they're kept for your house and car? That would be an essentially clerical participation. We would have a census to keep track of how many married and single people there are. Probably the institutions would count their marriage widgets and some organization would compile the data like they do now for, say, religious breakdowns so we would have some data. I guess the states could keep records like they do for any other kind of contract if they think they have a need. I don't know why they keep that data now except that governments naturally keep a piece of paper for everything. And to provide duplicates in case marriage certificates are lost. Hardly seems worthwhile to me.