Or at least it’s trying to.
The consultation, which sought views on whether non religious belief organisations like humanists should be allowed to conduct marriage ceremonies, has now closed, and the report has been published today.
Not surprisingly, the majority of people who contributed to the consultation saw no reason why such organisations shouldn’t be able to conduct such ceremonies (and to do so in unrestricted locations, including outdoors), but the consultation also reveals a well known truth: that our marriage laws are messy and piecemeal changes create even more, unnecessary, complexity.
This may be good news for the legal eagles who will be tasked with picking through the many legislative threads now tangled together, from outdated laws still knotting things up, to newer, progressive laws allowing more people to marry in different ways and adding layers of law which do not tie up with the layers underneath it. The trouble is, all these options have been developed over time and so they create a patchwork quilt of confusing principles and policy which make for potentially awkward equality issues. We have always thought that marriage law should be scrapped and re-drafted. And we still think so.
One law for all.
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Why not return to our simple way before religion darkened our shores?
Why not use the doughnut s(tone) again and have only 2 parties making their promises and not a third party in the contract like now.
Its so draconian for the 2 human parties to have to ask church/state for permission to marry and divorce- like children asking.
This 3rd party then never defaults on the contract while the other 2 are caught up in court asking for permission.
Considering the marriage contract is really a license to have legal sex, I feel it is long outdated.
We were more free before this patriarchal system came into being.
Gone should be the days of the dark priests- aka – judges making decisions for adult men and women re marriage INSTITUTION and divorce.
Gone should be the days of men husbanding the wombmen/vessels for the system- we are not cattle and should be treated as human beings.
So simply simplify it all back to where it was- as we Evolve back to Love.
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