This post actually got me to join this group because of what I want to share I think is very important to consider…Here is how he puts it…
JUNE IS WEDDING MONTH – Will the State or God be the third party in your marriage?? Will you unwittingly be giving the State ownership of your future children with just one piece of paper?
You’ve probably heard about the Michigan law that says the nurse gets 5 minutes alone with your adolescent child. Maybe you’ve seen that liberal “professor” stumping for state ownership of the children. What you probably have not heard is that the state ownership begins when you take out a MARRIAGE LICENSE.
Before 1933, marriage was a third party arrangement between husband, wife, and God. Now, it is the state / man / woman. Authority to license presumes ownership. Young folks, if I were you, I would say vows before God and family and record the blessed union in your family Bible.
Here is some homework for you love birds: “Marriage by Biblical Covenant
Not State License”
truthinliving.org/Marriage_Covenant.php
FIVE REASONS WHY CHRISTIANS SHOULD NOT OBTAIN A MARRIAGE LICENSE
by Rev. Matthew Trewhella
- The definition of a “license” demands that we not obtain one to marry.
Black’s Law Dictionary defines “license” as, “The permission by competent authority to do an act which without such permission, would be illegal.” We need to ask ourselves- why should it be illegal to marry without the State’s permission? More importantly, why should we need the State’s permission to participate in something which God instituted (Gen. 2:18-24)? We should not need the State’s permission to marry nor should we grovel before state officials to seek it. What if you apply and the State says “no”? You must understand that the authority to license implies the power to prohibit. A license by definition “confers a right” to do something. The State cannot grant the right to marry. It is a God-given right.
Let every person be subordinate to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been established by God. Therefore, whoever resists authority opposes what God has appointed, and those who oppose it will bring judgment upon themselves. For rulers are not a cause of fear to good conduct, but to evil. Do you wish to have no fear of authority? Then do what is good and you will receive approval from it, for it is a servant of God for your good. But if you do evil, be afraid, for it does not bear the sword without purpose; it is the servant of God to inflict wrath on the evildoer. Therefore, it is necessary to be subject not only because of the wrath but also because of conscience. This is why you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, devoting themselves to this very thing. Pay to all their dues, taxes to whom taxes are due, toll to whom toll is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due. Owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another; for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. Rom. 13:1-8 (since this refers to paying taxes, it is obviously talking about civil authority.
- When you marry with a marriage license, you grant the State jurisdiction over your marriage.
When you marry with a marriage license, your marriage is a creature of the State. It is a corporation of the State! Therefore, they have jurisdiction over your marriage including the fruit of your marriage. What is the fruit of your marriage? Your children and every piece of property you own. There is plenty of case law in American jurisprudence which declares this to be true.
In 1993, parents were upset here in Wisconsin because a test was being administered to their children in the government schools which was very invasive of the family’s privacy. When parents complained, they were shocked by the school bureaucrats who informed them that their children were required to take the test by law and that they would have to take the test because they (the government school) had jurisdiction over their children. When parents asked the bureaucrats what gave them jurisdiction, the bureaucrats answered, “your marriage license and their birth certificates.” Judicially, and in increasing fashion, practically, your state marriage license has far-reaching implications.
This is absurd. Government seizure of parental rights applies to the married and the unmarried alike, and perhaps more to the unmarried than to the married, depending on jurisdiction.
- When you marry with a marriage license, you place yourself under a body of law which is immoral.
By obtaining a marriage license, you place yourself under the jurisdiction of Family Court which is governed by unbiblical and immoral laws. Under these laws, you can divorce for any reason. Often, the courts side with the spouse who is in rebellion to God, and castigates the spouse who remains faithful by ordering him or her not to speak about the Bible or other matters of faith when present with the children.
As a minister, I cannot in good conscience perform a marriage which would place people under this immoral body of laws. I also cannot marry someone with a marriage license because to do so I have to act as an agent of the State! I would have to sign the marriage license, and I would have to mail it into the State. Given the State’s demand to usurp the place of God and family regarding marriage, and given its unbiblical, immoral laws to govern marriage, it would be an act of treason for me to do so.
Again: according to Romans, we may not defy civil authority out of fear that it might impose unjust punishments on us.
