Upvoted. I like your post. I liked it. I voted on it. Over a century ago, marriage licenses was generally more local if at all as opposed to being federalized by the American government. Other countries started doing that, centralized control, regulation. Many people don't really know or care about how things were for people centuries ago for example.

Churches would have the marriage records, the birth records, land property records, and other things. Over the years, government started doing what churches and other people were doing. Many people don't really get the difference between the two. The United States government was corrupted through the swamp, deep state, globalists, bad people, for over a century now, slowly over time. Absolute power corrupts absolutely and people seek after more and more power, generally.

The original definition of marriage, culturally, globally, historically, practically, morally, legally, has been a partnership, a union, between a biological female and male, literally, actually, as in opposite genders, sexes, and not of alleged cross dressing, gender roles, or whatever people may want to call homosexuality as described in Romans 1. Marriage is talked about in Genesis 3. I believe in freedom, so people can do what they want. That means, people can even make bad choices & then reap the consequences for those bad choices.
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But I believe in encouraging people to make better choices.

I believe in marriages like you said, that are faithful, between females and males, but gay people and lesbians can do what they want. but I don't want my tax dollars pay for lesbians or for abortions or for assisted suicides or for health care for other people or for the police, fire, education, and many things. I guess I would let some taxes go to securing American borders maybe. But I seek after minarchism, as in smaller government, as small as possible. We live in an #InformationWar. I'm Oatmeal because I eat oatmeal. I'm from Oregon.