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Entry: The State, Marriage, and Contract Law Link: http://www.takimag.com/sniperstower/article/a_thought_on_the_state_and_marriage#27609 Post contents: Mr. Roach I thought you would do better than an 8th grade history lesson. The least you could have done was to pull some Plato out of your ass and tell us about his plan for the abolishment of marriage. Or perhaps you might give us all a lesson on the investiture controversy. Or tell us of the “After Life in Roman Paganism” where Franz Cumont explains how “the souls of men aspired with ineffable ardour to the radiant spaces of heaven.” Instead you treat us to the separation of church and state. An eight grade history lesson. Are we to assume that you disagree with the premise? Conservatives of your stripe need government to control your life. Or as you say “without direction by chaste women and their stern fathers” where might you be. A chaste state and a stern legislator might do the same. This statement further explains your twisted “informed opinion”. “States rightfully make marriage attractive through various legal blandishments in order to create a financially and socially viable institution for rearing children. Socially, we honor men who enter it as “adult” and “responsible” to counter-balance the inherent trade-offs naturally promiscuous men face: the legal renunciation of the right to have sex (and children) with others.” Legal blandishments never crossed my mind when I married eighteen years ago. I had no need for the state to create anything for me. “Counter balancing the inherent trade offs”? Are you for real? Quite a calculating institution the state has devised. LOL Like I said to another poster who questioned my matriculation, it looks as you were robbed by whatever university you attended. Perhaps Oberlin would have been a better choice Sent at: 2009 01 09