The Marriage License
Another Trojan Horse
No Fault Divorce is one Trojan Horse, but the marriage license is another.
We have been conditioned into thinking that marriage is not marriage without a marriage license. We have to have a license to drive, to go fishing, to hunt with a gun, to run a business. A license is permission to do something that would otherwise be prohibited.
Is marriage a religious activity? If so, does the state have a right to regulate it, license it, control it? What is marriage? Is it merely a status to be registered with the state for tax purposes? Or is it much more than that?
Prior to 1970 when no fault divorce was initiated, the state protected marriages holding violators of the marriage covenant or contract accountable. Today, state marriages are basically feeders for the divorce industry.
Because of this, the family court system and their attorneys have a financial interest in opening the doors to every kind of marriage including homosexual marriages and adulterous marriages.
Should We Have A Marriage License At All?
Some pastors are now refusing to marry a couple who has a marriage license for various reasons:
- They feel it renders unto Caesar what belongs to God.
- They feel it gives a seal of approval to adulterous and homosexual marriages by classifying them together.
- They feel marriage deserves more sincere and effective accountability and protection than what the state offers.
- They feel it endangers marriages by trusting their safety to a system that has proved treacherous to marriages.
Some people say it is too easy to get a divorce. Others say it is too easy to get a marriage license. Perhaps both are true. If we give as much effort to preparing for marriage as we do the ceremony, perhaps more marriages would survive.
Part of that preparation should be accountability--setting up a good marriage covenant. Let the couple see this as a gift--as a way to say they really mean their wedding vows and that this is not a formality. Let them see it as a way of proving their love and trustworthiness. Let them see this as a measure of their true commitment and the sincerity of their marriage.
Let the couple express what they are willing to do should they fail in any area of the marriage covenant. Let them shore up their promises. Let them be humble and not arrogant, and let them accept that their marriage is new and that they do not have a right to demand trust, but that they love their spouses enough to earn that trust and that they are not afraid to be held accountable for keeping their vows.
Many people today feel that the marriage license is a false security. It has become a way for the courts to be invited in by an adulterous spouse to help rob the faithful and their children of their hard earned life savings, rob them of their family, and deprive little children of a life growing up with a healthy, loving family.
