> I've never understood the reason we even have marriage defined in government at all Then you haven't understood anything -- at least not about marriage -- at

> I've never understood the reason we even have marriage defined in government at all Then you haven't understood anything -- at least not about marriage -- at all. > we have have codified that one religious practice into our government It's the exact other way around: Marriage is a social / societal thing, i.e. exactly what government is all about. Religion -- perhaps particularly Christianity -- has co-opted it, but certainly didn't invent it. > libertarian Yeah, that explains it.