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Entry: Post-Christian America Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/post_christian_america#27581 Post contents: "Exactly. why is the the state involved in any of this?" I'm glad a few people beat me to the punch on this. It means I'm not crazy. Because of all the legal standings and financial benefits conferred by the state in re marriage, people fight over who does or doesn't get a piece of the pie. If their were no state sanctioned privilege, and two, or more, people wanted to enter into a, for want of a better term, "nuptial contract" which would cover such things as visitation, inheritance, division of property and all those complexities of human relationships, totally divorced from any official sanction, but fraught with as many institutional constraints as the parties cared to incorporate, there would be no endless political struggle to define a legal term. If a church or some other private institution such as, in a perfect world, an insurance company or a hospital, an adoption agency or a school chooses to bless such an arrangement, or not, then great, but keep the troth-feeding, control freaks out of it. Sent at: 2008 11 20