Marry Me
Marriage, sanctified or profane, is an idea whose time has gone.
No more need to extend the branches on any family tree, nor
maintain racial or cultural integrity in any but societies of
bigots and bullies. The melting pot reigns supreme. No need to
outlaw or enforce laws against adultery. No need to insure the
welfare of any future generation. No need to enforce marital
contracts- a brave, new world.
In our material world there is contract law, statute law,
natural law and divine law. Common law, which often incorporated
divine law, has been nullified by professionally generated
statute law. The United States Constitution is a contract. My
marriage is a contract. The Ten Commandments are contracts. When
any party to a contract fails to perform to the conditions of
such contract, that contract is null and void; having no further
obligation on any original contractor or their offspring.
The U.S. Constitution bound those who agreed to its provisions
until any provision was breached. Then it bound no one and binds
no one today. The arrogance of the propertied interests who
drafted the contract, declared it to be the Supreme Law of the
Land. Christians, Jews and Muslims alike, know the difference
between supreme and inferior. If men create it, the law is
inferior by definition. To hide the facts, we make inferior law
public and supreme law private. The state should display supreme
law with each line crossed out. That would more accurately
describe our times and still offend those who wish to hide
supreme law altogether.
If my wife or I have nullified our marital contract, neither of
us is morally bound by it. If we have a state sanctioned
contract, we are legally bound until we obtain state
nullification. If we choose to live together without a valid
contract, we are as free as any. I hear freedom will soon rule
the world.
Institutions are created to serve a purpose. When the
institution no longer serves that purpose, it becomes something
very different in its nature. Marriage once insured an extended
family and family estate, which insured successive generations.
Clans, extended families and estates were at cross purposes with
the needs of the Machine Age managers for cheap labor and
physical mobility. The nuclear, two generation family was
created as a new family value. With few good models, husbands,
wives and parents were cast adrift. The nuclear family quickly
devolved into the broken family. People were no longer invested
in the survival and welfare of their offspring, so the state
invested in them. The state then claims the children as
government property when they reach age eighteen. Barely a peep
of protest is heard from the people who bore and raised them to
the age of state redemption. If we do not need marriage to
produce labor and soldiers, we don