Why does the government so involved in the institution of marriage when it really should be a religious right?

Answer 1

Government has to be involved in marriage because it affects so many legal relationships, property, custody of children, inheritance, etc.

Answer 2

Well, it can still be a religious right. Those that participate in the marriage ceremony at a church or officiated by a church official participate in the religious part of marriage. It is our own fault that government had to become involved in the installment and disinstallment of marriage. When people became angered at their church for not allowing them to get an annulment, they took it to the authority that had power over church, the government. It is for that reason alone that government became involved in the marriage process. We did it and now we can't undo it. Guess people should have learned that marriage really is supposed to be forever and not supposed to be ended so easily. That is why government is so involved in the institution of marriage, because people asked them to be. Tough luck, huh?

Answer 3

It could be an argument for separation of church and state. However, our laws are based on Judeo-Chritianity, the 10 Commandments and all that stuff. So when it comes to religious issues, like marriage, the state has adopted the traditional family as its core value. This is much like "Thou shalt not kill", hence it is a crime, "Thou shalt not steal" and so on.

I have also wondered why Martin Luther King Jr. day is a federal holiday. He was a REVERAND, and that is a separation of church and state issue as well. If we can't recognize Jesus and Christmas in our schools, how can we take a day off to recognize a reverand? How come we have to hold our hand on a Bible in court? How come there is priests and religious staff in the military? How come the Supreme Court says a prayer before each session and has the 10 Commandments publicly shown, but no other gov't institution is allowed this? How come judges can carry concealed weapons, but most others can't? This all seems like an odd contradiction.

Answer 4

You can't call it a religious right becsuse many people who marry don't have any pitucilar religion .

Also with marriage there are different taxes, health care, retirment benifits, etc. All that is connected with government and with NO religious ramifcations.

Also if a husband is in the hospital and there need to be lilfe

saving choices.......only a wife or direct family member make medial decisions. And if there is a girfriend, she can't make those decisions. This is why Sanda Bullock married her man becasue he was in the hospital and she coudn't make any decisons. Again , this has nothing to do with religion.

Marriage is in a way a business contract. Religion just deals with the faithfulness of people. Legal marriage deals with rights to the chldren, insurance, etc.

Answer 5

It is a religious right . There are 2 different types of marriage , religious ,according to ones beliefs, and secular as observed by the government.They are mutually exclusive.

Mary all you want, but If you want the government to observe it, e.g taxes, benefits children school, etc.. then ya gotta deal with it, convince the voters, THEY are the government

Answer 6

Because married couples get rights that are given by the government. This is unfortunately one of the few institutions that has never had a true separation of church and state. Marriage is a union of two people. Various definitions regard different parts of this union... spiritual, financial, social, sexual, etc.

In terms of government though, the law says that two people who are legally married are considered one "married unit". This affords them specific rights and priveleges, which is why marriage is "interfered with" by the government. You can't have it both ways.

Answer 7

government isn't in touch in the non secular company of marriage in any way. Marriage is the two a non secular company and a civil one. the government is in basic terms in touch in the latter. in case you desire to marry your canines and hit upon a church which will carry the rite, you have got a non secular marriage on your canines. the government won't recognize this form of wedding ceremony as having any criminal rigidity, yet as you assert, the government should not be in touch in the non secular company of marriage.