Sanctifying Marriage
I was talking the other day with my buddy-in-good-times about the institution of marriage. We were discussing the fact that, really, any two people should be able to get married, since it merely involves making a bunch of promises to each other that any two people can make, when he pointed out that the Church actually has no business involving itself in marriage at all.
It's true, too. Marriage is a surprisingly legal, manmade institution that involves a binding (but not really) contract based on a bunch of airy fairy ooey gooey promises made by one person to another who want their "love" recognized in law. I mean, since there's no way of knowing whether or not anyone of us will keep those promises, it's not even very legal, in my opinion.
But - what the hell does Gawd have to do with it?
Personally, I think marriage should be made illegal - like slavery and witch burnings - because it's simply not reasonable to bind one person to another by means of a contract based on a bunch of promises that may or may not really reflect how each party feels about the other - when there is simply no way for either party to know whether or not they can keep their promises for any length of time, let alone until death do them part.
