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A provocative point concerns the institution of marriage itself. The speaker criticizes government involvement, arguing that state marriage contracts serve to erode the traditional, religious foundation of marriage. They posit that such contracts are manipulative tools that favor women—allowing them to leverage legal structures to gain custody, limit access, or manipulate their husbands—effectively turning marriage into a battlefield of control.
From this perspective, religious and personal convictions about marriage should supersede governmental involvement. To thicken the plot, the speaker claims that these arrangements cheapen the sacredness of unions by injecting state authority, thus diverting marriages from spiritual bonds to contractual loopholes.