SCOTUS orders thrice-divorced KY county clerk to issue marriage license

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(09-10-2015, 01:43 PM)StLucieBengal Wrote: There should be no benefits to a government marriage.   The whole reason we have a gov marriage was to prevent interracial marriages.

Marriage has always been a social contract that was recognized by which ever political structure ruled the jurisdiction.

Whether it was family based tribes uniting or a transfer of property between two people in a town with the promise that one's daughter would marry the other's son, it has always been something society recognized. 

Even within the US, the government  recognized it because it had been done that way for centuries as it was a contract.