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Pardon my intrusion, but when two atheists go to a Government office, get a Government issued Marriage License and get married by a Government Justice of the Peace, I would refer to that as a Secular Marriage.
What would you call it?
Because minors cannot give consent. The age of majority does vary depending on the jurisdiction.
Dogs and cats also cannot give consent.
None of this has anythjing to do with the topic at hand. This woman was held in contempt for refusing to follow a court order to issue marriage licenses, which is a duty of her office.
Bigotry, intolerance, and a refusal to do one's job had everything to do with it.
Glad to see us angling back towards the real issue here. There is no reason for her to have been jailed indefinitely. The abuse of judicial power--quite apart from the right of the courts to rule on the legality of gay marriages--is something that should concern even the folks making the snarky comments and the "she got what she deserved" posts. The minute it happens to someone THEY favor, you'll be hearing another tune played.
Read the articles you post before posting them. See that little section called "History?" That might help.
If they're members of the opposite sex, marriage.
Maybe you'd find some other ridiculous sequence of events to be "all she has to do." Like...
All she has to do is have sex with the sheriff.
or
All she has to do is publicly renounce her faith in Christ.
or
All she has to do is agree to give up her citizenship.
Do you really, really not understand the issue here?
The truth is hate to those who hate the truth.
Marriage is not a secular institution. "Secular marriage" doesn't exist.
"History" refers to things that happened in the past.
Welcome to the present.
Sure it does, or else my friends who were married by MDJs just imagined it.
Waiting with bated breath for an actual refutation of what I've said and not just a straw man or yet another red herring...
And in the present, marriage still means the same thing. Welcome to reality.
The truth is that the United States Government gets to decide who can and cannot marry...