There seem to be a number of mostly republican presidential candidates you claim that government should not define, or in any way be involved with the institution of marriage. OK, sounds good. That means that the following would need to happen:
No more filing joint taxes.
No more tax benefits for married couples.
No more joint property rights for married couples.
No more automatic inheritance when a spouse dies.
Any law currently mentioning the words spouse, married, or marriage must be stricken.
That's fine for me; I'm still single, but I don't think it would go over well with a large number of people. The truth is, the government IS in the marriage business, and has been from the start. If government must be removed, however, I have a compromise:
Any two people may enter into an exclusive contract designating each other life partner. Said Life Partner shall be entitled to all rights and privileges currently afforded a spouse.
That seems like a good compromise. Now, with government out of the equation, marriage must be defined by religion. That's what they're pushing for, at least. So, for a fundamentalist sect of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and a number of others, that's one man and several women. I imagine there are religions out there that prescribe marriage to say, a goat, a dog, a space alien, the moon, ghosts, ones-self... That's all fine and good.
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