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No it wouldn't. Yours would open it up to local and state governments taking control of it. And if they didn't then your local pastor or some other "prominent" person would step in and try to force you to follow their way. And they need not use violence or anything illegal to do so. The only way that your idea would work is if every single person minded their own buisness. And that just simply is not going to ever happen.
Do you file to get married at the Federal level? I'm not gonna rummage to find my old marriage license but, yeah, I am pretty sure we applied at the County clerks office. Perhaps I -- due to the fact I didn't think it necessary -- was mistaken when I said keep government out of the marriage business. Maybe I should have said keep ALL FORMS of government out.
As it is now, and again, I didn't take the time to look but I'm pretty sure my Cook County Certificate of Marriage is valid, well, everywhere.
Currently you have states running around saying gay marriage yes, gay marriage no, but with the implementation of my proposal, states wouldn't be able to deny or affirm anyone either.
Perhaps my proposal is too simple to follow. There seems to be a disconnect somewhere, sometimes that which is easiest seems the most difficult to grasp. This isn't a case like say, weed getting legalized at the State level while still being illegal at the Federal, no this would be one of those laws that restrict government not its citizens.
I think that is where we've gone wrong as a country. The Constitution isn't a document stating the rights of its citizens, no, when it was written it was a document outlining what restrictions should be placed on the government.
We've fallen so far from grace that people nowadays are actually arguing against proposals that will make them more free, that will restrict what liberties our government can take with its authority...
Unbelievable....