Rational thought at the UChicago Law School

[dsrtao]

http://uchicagolaw.typepad.com/faculty/2008/10/why-did-marriag.html

Basic argument: the state stays out of baptism, naming, confession, communion, confirmation, and so forth -- it shouldn't be in the marriage business, either.

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[metahacker.livejournal.com]

Marriages were a tax dodge. That's why the government got involved in the first place. None of those other rituals involve a bunch of money flying from place to place.