{"id":6,"date":"2006-12-20T22:10:14","date_gmt":"2006-12-21T03:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/?p=6"},"modified":"2011-01-27T12:41:49","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T17:41:49","slug":"what-is-the-meaning-of-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/?p=6","title":{"rendered":"What is the meaning of marriage?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is my\u00a0letter\u00a0published in\u00a0the August 2005 issue of Friends Journal:<\/em><\/p>\n

I found your recent material on marriage to be particuarly relevant for me.\u00a0 I am getting married this fall under the care of Lansdowne (PA) Meeting, and\u00a0this has sent me on a journey to consider the spiritual meaning of marriage and its relationship (if any) to the state’s concept of marriage (defined strictly as a legal contract).\u00a0 I had intended to be married under the care of the meeting but to not apply for a license, and then ask to have the marriage recognized by Pennsylvania. But Pennsylvania abolished common law marriage as\u00a0of January 1, 2005.\u00a0 So I will be getting a license to get married, just like folks have to get a dog license or a driver’s license.\u00a0 But at least for a driver’s license, the state requires some exhibition of capability with respect to what it is allowing.\u00a0 How can the state “allow” marriage at all?\u00a0 Governmental history in this regard is abysmal — less than half a century ago, interracial marriage was still illegal in Virginia (until this was oveturned by the U.S. Supreme Court).\u00a0 In the first half of the 20th century, many states (not just in the south) had miscegenation laws regarding marriage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is my\u00a0letter\u00a0published in\u00a0the August 2005 issue of Friends Journal: I found your recent material on marriage to be particuarly relevant for me.\u00a0 I am getting married this fall under the care of Lansdowne (PA) Meeting, and\u00a0this has sent me on a journey to consider the spiritual meaning of marriage and its relationship (if any) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}