tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-191275644331392359.post8110189443076117980..comments2024-03-29T02:58:16.203-07:00Comments on WEST MICHIGAN POLITICS: "Straight, Gay, Religious, Non-Religious," Courser Says Marriage Legislation Works For EveryoneUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-191275644331392359.post-46093337920029602962015-06-29T06:22:54.983-07:002015-06-29T06:22:54.983-07:00State Rep. Courser proposes filing a common law ma...State Rep. Courser proposes filing a common law marriage in lieu of a validated marriage license. Unfortunately, several analysts have observed, as it were, that he is palming an ace.<br /><br />Michigan no longer recognizes common law marriage, having rescinded earlier state laws that did back in the 1980s.<br /><br />In addition, given the large number (even, I daresay, in Michigan) of "ministers of the Gospel, clergy, and religious practitioners" (even within Christian communions, not to mention outside them) who have no objection whatsoever to performing a same sex marriage ceremony, the bill's most obvious target (same sex couples) are not likely to be discommoded that much, though that does not negate the blatant violations of the free exercise and establishment clauses inherent in these bills.<br /><br />Secular couples, regardless of gender, are the ones who must either compromise their principles by seeking what is usually called "benefit of clergy," or marrying out of state, or risking a common law marriage which state law is not required to recognize.<br /><br />And the state cannot compel a citizen to perform a religious observance, Rep. Courder might as well draft a bill requiring everyone to say the Angelus, or banning cheeseburgers because they are treyf.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-191275644331392359.post-30442057423300054612015-06-24T11:19:47.240-07:002015-06-24T11:19:47.240-07:00Auto-correct.Auto-correct.KG-1http://rightmi.com/author/kg-one/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-191275644331392359.post-59834020911585424002015-06-23T14:06:47.941-07:002015-06-23T14:06:47.941-07:00"Justice of the piece?""Justice of the piece?"<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-191275644331392359.post-30405175229177934392015-06-22T11:46:13.127-07:002015-06-22T11:46:13.127-07:00"This package of bills is attempting to legal...<i>"This package of bills is attempting to legalize bigotry, plain and simple. "</i><br /><br />And why is it that the people who claim to be "tolerant" are in reality <b>THE</b> most intolerant people on the planet?<br /><br />I don't know where you're from, but thought crime isn't illegal here in this little place I like to call America. We don't tell people what to think, how to feel, or to whom they should interact with under penalty of law.<br /><br />Look, if you're gay and you want to marry, then find a Unitarian (they live for the sort of thing) or do what republican Greg McNeilly did when he married his husband and find (what looks like) a willing justice of the piece to perform it.<br /><br />Not good enough for you? You'd rather control people via the use of gov't coercion and force? <br /><br />Then hit the bricks!<br /><br />KG-1http://rightmi.com/author/kg-one/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-191275644331392359.post-42204723644117506002015-06-22T07:57:28.882-07:002015-06-22T07:57:28.882-07:00"See what the people fail to realize with the..."See what the people fail to realize with these procedures for marriage given by the Government unto States is that, 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, in which the fruit of your marriage is your children and every piece of property you own. When you marry with a marriage license, you are not just marrying your spouse, but you are also marrying the State. With This Ring I Thee Wed, is of the state and is found in most county courthouses in many States. That phrase was published by the State Bar Association. They don't tell you that when you repeat your vows, you enter into a legal contract, in which there are three parties to that contract, with the first being you, the second being the person you are marrying, and the third being the State you marry in. See the State and the lawyers know that when you marry with a marriage license, you are not just marrying your spouse, you are marrying the State, thus giving undue jurisdiction to the State."<br />Marriage License Truth <br />http://www.macquirelatory.com/Marriage%20License%20Truth.htmMary-Orionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08879177621651852097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-191275644331392359.post-239276147382157082015-06-21T07:40:56.612-07:002015-06-21T07:40:56.612-07:00After 90 days of a SCTOUS judgement, the law as wr...After 90 days of a SCTOUS judgement, the law as written changes, without a valid license the civil contract of marriage has no weight. This package of bills is attempting to legalize bigotry, plain and simple. Courser needs to be recalled by the citizens of his constituency. No amount of backpedaling, or disingenuous spinning of his bills can change the outcome of the reality of this bill- attempts to bar or make it harder for gays to marry. 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