State interference and treating women as property are perversions of marriage.

It’s meant to be a sacred union, not a license for domination, not an erasure of identity; married men and women should become more themselves, not less, as they also become something more together.

And the state should not exist, let alone have any tentacle in marriage, least of all the delusion that it gets to approve or deny it.

To have sexual relationships in freefall without explicit lifelong commitment to one another is also a perversion of marriage. There may be deep love, but the deepest love is that of a man and woman dedicating the rest of their lives to one another and facing life together.