A non-conservative take on Marriage

I am always being confused with political and social conservatives, often because I see the wisdom in much that God and his servants preach. I am married to a proud conservative and my love and devotion to her is undiminished by our ideological differences. 

I am not a conservative. Watch and find out.

I am much more strongly aligned with classical liberalism and have been so for the vast majority of my life.  And when I use the term, it bares no resemblance to the modern prostitution of the "liberal" term. I am for small, stay out of your life government, live and let-live neighborliness, and a lively justice system that handles difficult disputes. I love the original US Constitution and Bill of Rights and am a fan of both fiscal capitalism, personal generosity, and allowing natural consequences. 

Marriage has become the territory of right-wingers as more and more leftists view God's ordained union as some hateful prison of feminine servitude. It doesn't help that many people enter into the marriage covenant with a pile of unrealistic expectations of the sort of completion that marriage is supposed to be.

Lower or remove a minimum age for entering into a marriage.

I have no problem with laws that say that minors must have parental permission to get married, which goes far to reducing bully and child-exploitation relationships.  Dads protecting their children remain a powerful regulator against abuse.

Younger couples will more likely live with parents and draw on family cultural values (which is often good) rather than more ignorant, faddish, and ill-informed advice from an age cohort that captures minds from late teens into thirty year olds.

My grandmother got married at the age of 14. In most places today, this is defined as "statutory rape". This was a common practice in those days (check your genealogy records) and many of these marriages were more apt to be long-standing than our current versions. 

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