MINOR: Mississippi’s quick-marriage law kicks in on Sunday
For a state that prides itself for promoting family values, a measure that becomes law on Sunday wiping out a longstanding provision for a three-day waiting period and blood test for couples to get a marriage license is a stunning reversal of our purported high moral standards.
You’d think we would be doing the opposite: Enacting laws to elevate the sanctity of exchanging marriage vows. We have a terrible record of marriages ending in divorces. Mississippi’s divorce rate is among the highest in the nation, incidentally, twice that of “liberal” Massachusetts.
Bill Minor
6/28/12
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