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Originally Posted by LisaM

What????? Are you serious? Does he mean that someday Christians will have only platonic relationships or that we'll just abadon the whole marriage idea and live together? Is this guy for real? How can he say that and still have credibility with people who read the Bible?

I think his beef with marriage licenses has to do with his distrust of the government and the current push for the legalization of gay marriages. He advocates a religious/private marriage covenant. Here's a quote:

None of my daughters or their husbands asked the state of Tennessee for permission to marry. They did not yoke themselves to government. It was a personal, private covenant, binding them together forever—until death. So when the sodomites have come to share in the state marriage licenses, which will eventually be the law, James and Shoshanna will not be in league with those perverts. And, while I am on the subject, there will come a time when faithful Christians will either revoke their state marriage licenses and establish an exclusively one man-one woman covenant of marriage, or, they will forfeit the sanctity of their covenant by being unequally yoked together with perverts. The sooner there is such a movement, the sooner we will have a voice in government. Some of you attorneys and statesmen reading this should get together and come up with an approach that will have credibility and help to impact the political process. Please contact me when you do and I will assist with publicity.

http://www.nogreaterjoy.org/index.ph...se&tt_news=196