Reply #25: Having been through a divorce I agree completely...

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Once you have been through the process, and suffered the results, you come to realize just how much the civil part of marriage is by and for the government. In some ways it would be nice to just have the religious or spiritual ceremony and bond. The partnership contract entered under in a civil union can absolutely fuck you up. Let everyone enter a civil union at their will and if they want a religiously blessed "marriage", then let them do that according to the tenets of their religion/sect. Separating the two functions would make people think long and hard about the CU.