Marriage, sanctified or profane, is an idea whose time has gone. No more need to extend the branches on any family tree, nor maintain racial or cultural integrity in any society of bigots and bullies. The melting pot reigns supreme. No need to outlaw or enforce laws against adultery. No need to ensure the welfare of any future generation. No need to enforce marital contracts. A brave, new world.

In our material world there is contract law, statute law, natural law, and divine law. Common law, which often is incorporated divine law, has been nullified by professionally generated statute law. The United States Constitution is a contract. My marriage is a contract. The Ten Commandments are contracts. When any party to a contract fails to perform to the conditions of such contract, that contract is null and void; having no further obligation on any original contractor or their offspring.

The U.S. Constitution bound those who agreed to its provisions until any provision was breached. Then it bound no one and binds no one today. The arrogance of the propertied interests who drafted the contract, declared it to be the Supreme Law of the Land. Christians, Jews and Muslims alike, know the difference between supreme and inferior. If men create it, the law is inferior by definition. To hide the facts, we make inferior law public and supreme law private. The state should display supreme law with each line crossed out. That would more accurately describe our times and still offend those who wish to hide supreme law altogether.

If my wife or I have nullified our marital contract, neither of us are morally bound by it. If we have a state sanctioned contract, we are legally bound until we obtain state nullification. If we choose to live together without a valid contract, we are as free as any. I hear freedom will soon rule the world.

Institutions are created to serve a purpose. When the institution no longer serves that purpose, it becomes something very different in its nature. Marriage once insured an extended family and family estate, which insured successive generations. Clans, extended families and estates were at cross purposes with the needs of the Machine Age managers for cheap labor and physical mobility. The nuclear, two generation family was created as a new family value. With few good models, husbands, wives and parents were cast adrift. The nuclear family quickly devolved into the broken family. People were no longer invested in the survival and welfare of their offspring, so the state invested in them. The state then claims the children as government property when they reach age eighteen. Barely a peep of protest is heard from the people who bore and raised them to the age of state redemption.

If we do not need marriage to produce labor and soldiers, we dont need marriage at all. As my grand dad used to say, stay single and raise your children to do the same.