Common Objections To Religious Only Marriage

Common Objections to Religious Only Marriage

T here are several objections to religious marriage. Thus, religious marriages in most Churches do not exist and very shunned upon as sinful. The most common objections or thoughts of interest include shacking and the infamous Christian cliché` “obeying the law of the land”.

Shacking

I f you’re not sure what shacking is, let me clear it up for you quickly: it’s when a couple lives together, “plays house,” and “mimics” marriage by engaging in intercourse. It is always associated with couples who do not have a civil marriage. To the masses, there is no such thing as a religious marriage so if a couple does not have a civil marriage and “plays house” then they are considered shacking and “living

Because a religious marriage is not based on a contract, the covenant serves as the binding agreement for the couple. Not only through the religious marriage concept does “shacking up” fails but also through the entire ideal of what is viewed as marriage. In Laura Land’s book, Marriage Without a License: A Completely Moral Alternative to Civil Marriage, she states this obvious contradiction as well to the ideal of

To put it another way, some appear to be comfortable honoring marriages where God is not an issue (as is the case in civil marriages where the couple may be atheist, agnostic, etc), but are vehemently opposed to accepting marriages where God is included, but the government is taken out of the process. Specifically, many Christians will stigmatize biblical marriages as ‘shacking up’ or ‘living in sin’ and label couples fornicators if they participate in a “government-free” marriages, but will honor ‘non-spiritual’ marriages – those that are only civil – as being valid and honorable. To date, I have not been able to figure out any other reasonable explanation for this juxtaposition other than to assume that this is because government is being held in greater esteem than God.”

In other words, the church equates common law with shacking, even though common law is a recognized form of marriage with legal entitlements and that both situations completely negate God’s government in marriage.

If a couple is in a civil marriage, where there is no intent of ever moving forward towards a covenant then the parties are, what my Husband has termed, committing legal fornication. The couple is not in a covenant relationship and usually has no intent of being in one. Well, one partner may wish to move forward, but it takes two to make