TheLegend of St. Valentine suggests that there were once priests who would marry people without requiring them to get state permission first. That would be nice now, given that state marriage does demonstrable harm via the divorce industry, provides very little in the way of benefits, and is now a vehicle through which people are trying to redefine marriage, even to the point, in Britain, of using state law to allow 'church' marriages of homosexuals.
What's next? Forcing unhappy clergy to perform such shenanigans at the point of a gun?
I don't deny I am tempted by schadenfreude at the thought. Surely there must be some point where the average bishop begins to realize the frightful disadvantages perpetrated upon the heterosexual men who actually want to get married! Can't they see that state marriage today is no marriage at all? The state, all too often, aids the transgressor and violates the victim. Why subject anyone to that?
It seems to me, on one hand, they build up new rules like the pharisees for us to jump through, while on the other they seek to be a secular as possible in order to avoid trouble. Don't go out dressed as a priest- you might get beaten up! Meanwhile, make sure your fellow christian is doubly and triply exposed to every legal and financial danger possible, not to mention the dangers to our souls.
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