re: Respect for Marriage Act passes House (258 to 169) - now heads to Biden's desk

Under who’s authority does the Government think it can change the definition and nature of marriage?

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Under who’s authority does the Government think it can change the definition and nature of marriage?

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Who issues marriage license government or the church.

Extended from my question that I started with.

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No better than the Taliban

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You'd be shoved off the nearest roof.

Want to retry that "no better than"?

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Bookmarked.

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Put it on a poster at the corner of Tigerbend and Jones Creek.

Observations and question about the history of marriage as being a religious matter, in particular in the Abrahamic religions. As the "parent" religion, let's look at Judaism.

In modern times, a rabbi performs marriage ceremonies, as I understand it. But that is a relatively-modern development. Back in the time of the Second Temple, rabbis (in the modern sense of a religious officiant) did not even exist. A rabbi was just a "teacher" ... a religious scholar (again, as I understand it) and not a formal leader of any sort of religious congregation.

Religious observances instead took place at the Second Temple, in Jerusalem. And the officiant were the Levite priests. Nowhere else and no one else, right? Synagogues did exist, but they appear to have been centers of learning, rather than centers of worship, until sometime in the First Century ... possibly after destruction of the Second Temple.

I have not been able to find anything in the Bible to indicate that everyone who wanted to marry had to troop off to the Temple in Jerusalem and find a Levite priest.

Instead, my research tends to indicate that the potential groom (or his family) would pay a brideprice to the family of the potential bride. I cannot find any evidence that any priests or even lesser Levites were involved in the process at all. Basically, the betrothal was just a contract between the two families.

After a period of about a year (when the potential groom prepared a home among other things), he would just blow a ram's horn, go collect his new wife and take her to the new home. They would consummate and maybe have a party celebrating the new marriage. Again, no priests or Levites seem to have been involved.

In fact, I have been able to find no evidence anywhere in the Bible of ANY marriage ceremony. Jesus does seem to have attended something analogous to a "wedding reception" in Cana, where he provided the wine, but there is no mention of a preceding ceremony of any sort. I know that I always just sort of assumed that there had been a ceremony, because that is the modern practice. But I can find nothing in the Book itself.

By modern standards, the families just exchanged goods or goats or money, then some time later the new couple shacked-up. Basically, EVERY marriage was a "common law" marriage.

The entire concept seems to me to have been a contractual arrangement, rather than a religious one OR a government/civil one. Have I missed some important passage in the Old or New Testament regarding marriage ceremonies?

Ancient rituals related to marriage

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We’ll all be gay gender neutral avatars in the Metaverse by then.

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Most of you will be. Moral relativism never stops.

It's not a marriage.

Man and women. Period.

That's never gonna change.

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Since 2015 when Obergefell was ruled on, has any church been sued to marry a same-sex couple?

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Not that I am aware of.

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RMA would be invalidated by any state that has a ban on SSM though. Federal cannot force one state's laws onto another state that has laws that disagree

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if Scotus were to reverse Obergefell and Loving, yes that could possibly be the eventual result.