Governments have regulated marriage for a long time. Take a look at any general history of marriage and you will see that the flavors of marriage regulated by governments run far and wide. (I posted the wikipedia article titled Marriage for a start, also take a look at Marriage Law)

Seems to me you are also ignorant of the U.S. government’s use of law in order to define Mormon polygamy as illegal. Take a look at the Morrill act, the Edmunds Act, and the Edmunds-Tucker act, not to mention the “The Racial Integrity Act” of 1924 that needed to be overturned by the Supreme Court as unconstitutional in Loving vs. Virginia. Perhaps the US Government didn’t get your memo.

Regardless of some ephemeral “authority” that you mention, governments have somehow gained the authority, and have successfully regulated and defined marriage for centuries and even millennium.

So maybe you feel fine attacking actors as stupid and/or ignorant, a point with which I don’t necessarily disagree, but it doesn’t bode well for you when you make outrageously ignorant statements that can’t be sustained with even a very cursory look at history.

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