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Weatherall on Nostr: well, the state-sanctioned (and owned) "marriage certificate" that most couples ...

well, the state-sanctioned (and owned) "marriage certificate" that most couples robotically pursue in #thecurrentyear and presume is "how its always been done" (even though its only about a century old in america and a few centuries in the most remote implementations - marriages used to be recorded in the Family Bible as a matter-of-record) ...

the problem is not "marriage" , but state-sanctioned marriage with all of its under the surface legal cages and generally emasculating provisions and other nefarious intentions, along with the ridiculous presumption that it, The Beast, imagines itself to be in the position to sanctify such unions...

its no coincidence that the Soviets were the first to outlaw anything other than the state sanctioned and certificated marriage, while banning God from the equation, at the same time as they passed the right-to-divorce and all sorts of feminist-oriented codes immediately after gaining power:

"The December 1917 decrees and the 1918 RSFSR Family Code went further than anyone before: they gave legal validity only to civil marriage, stripped religious authorities of any registration role entirely, and created the ZAGS registry network. They also pioneered unilateral, no-fault divorce — comparable laws didn't appear in Western Europe or the US until decades later (Encyclopedia.com — 1918 Family Code)."