Keep the state out of marriage and hand it back to the churches

I must confess myself to be utterly unsurprised that the so called ‘Conservative’ party has again revealed itself to be completely without principle or beliefs.

Marriage in the modern world is in a particularly sorry state; and its death will soon be state sanctioned by the Conservative Party. The funeral service will be overseen by the Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Bill which will remove the ability to contest divorces and allow one party to simply issue ‘a statement of irretrievable breakdown’ that will constitute grounds for divorce in all circumstances. Those who believe marriage to be a useless piece of paper will be proven completely correct beyond all doubt when this Bill, effectively making it easier to get divorced than to be prosecuted for drug use, is introduced.

It baffles me that a party that calls itself ‘Conservative’ can support such an unconservative Bill that obliterates the foundation of conservative philosophy, the married family. The parliament website shows the sponsors of the Bill are both Conservative, Robert Buckland the secretary of state for Justice and Lord Keen of Elie the spokesperson for the ministry of Justice in the House of Lords.

I must confess myself to be utterly unsurprised that the so called ‘Conservative’ party has again revealed itself to be completely without principle or beliefs.

So while Boris Johnson and his cronies busy themselves by dancing on the grave of civilisation, what is a conservative to do? The first question is to ask whether the government should be meddling in the institution of marriage; after all it is government intervention that gave rise to the common belief that marriage is a worthless piece of paper.

Marriage, outside the Abrahamic religions, is not particularly important to anyone and increasingly only religious people get married. As marriage is such an important institution to the Christians and religious of this country and seemingly to no one else, it would not be a loss if it was given back to the Churches, all three of them, and those secular people who still wished to be married could simply do it in a Church.

What business does the government have in our private lives? All the government need do is recognise marriages done by private institutions and then leave them alone instead of continually degrading marriages to the point of uselessness. After all, who is this type of marriage really for?

If you can get out of it so easily, as is currently the case, there would be no point in getting married in the first place; unless you had a religious reason for doing so. Those that wished could simply make commitments for life, or vows, privately, without going through all the hassle of entering into an institution they didn’t believe in in the first place.

By trying to please everyone government policy has instead irritated one side and made the other side forget about the issue completely; government pandering has only resulted in the destruction of marriage and so it should be devolved to those that genuinely care about the institution, namely the Christian, Jewish, Muslim and other religious communities in the United Kingdom.