Nah. A person’s essay should be as long as they care for it to be, as long as it has content the entire time. One of the problems with modern debate is that its been reduced to the snippet level, and therefore is devoid of content.

The answer would be no as its not possible to write a contract requiring the government to recognize something that it hasn’t already bound itself to recognize. So, a person can’t require the government to recognize the sacramental nature of a marriage.

Nor would that achieve much anyhow. As a sacramental marriage is just that, the recognition of it, or not, by the government wouldn’t add to it.

I’ve spent time in museums and antique shops …. it’s kind of the same.

Oh, okay. Fair enough.

I’m curious: why’d you read it, then? I mean, it was pretty clear from the outset that it was a really long post about marriage. That’s interesting to lots of people, but if you start off thinking marriage is obsolete, I can’t see how that could have ended well.

Yes

You mean that *marriage* is irrelevant?

It’s long, it’s dull and it addresses and obsolete thing, once relevant in an earlier era, but pertinent no more.

In what way?