History of the Traditional Prenuptial Agreement
Once upon a time there was a man and a woman who would be married until death do them part, for better or worse. In a land where marriage contracts were enforced by the courts. If you are planning a traditional church wedding, would you like THE traditional prenuptial agreement where you both have to work out the issues of your life, just as God intended, in a marriage that cannot be divorced? There are very few Christian societies left in which marriage cannot be divorced.
America was once such a society. And with a little knowledge of history and a paralegal familiar with ecclesiastical law, you too can join in the Holy Matrimony that is indeed until death do you part. According to a United States Supreme Court decision in 1888, there was a time when New York, first as a colony and then as a state, had never been divorced in a hundred years. In early New York, under harsh conditions, even when men never came home from the border, the family remained a sacred institution for more than a century. Courts in the United States were bound by the law of the land to enforce traditional marriages.
Imagine that! Imagine living under constitutional law, where marriage was enforced by the courts, for better or worse, until death do you part. Imagine a society in which no one had ever been divorced. There is no reward for adultery. There is no such thing as a former spouse. No child torn apart by the new marriage. No official imposing strange ideas about the care, custody, education and support of the children of the State. In the land of the free, where the family was protected by law instead of regulated by law.
There is a constitutional clause that prohibits the Government from undermining the obligation of contracts. Although it had never been challenged in any divorce proceeding, late 19th century law textbooks insist that “…the application of this clause in the marriage contract would be limited to preventing divorce by the will of one of the the parties, against the will of the other party,…”
Read that again. A legal doctrine, taught in law schools by eminent jurists, that the Constitution prevents forced divorce. And this was after the United States Supreme Court ruled that divorcing a man through no fault of his own would be a flagrant violation of the principles of justice.
Today’s divorce industry has reversed the roles established by God.
From the Garden of Eden, Marriage was defined as a man and a woman united until death. But the divorce industry wants you to believe that a marriage is only good until the spouse is disposable. They changed the law book definition of marriage in 1979. The Biblical definition is no longer found in American law dictionaries.
There are suppressed marriage laws that the divorce industry doesn’t want you to know about. Traditional marriage remains a lifelong relationship. This little-known law is still valid today IF you can avoid the traps they set for you. In your once-great nation, legitimate marriages must still be honored. And the government cannot discriminate against your Christian religion. In fact, divorcing a Christian couple could meet all the elements of the crime of genocide.
Let’s briefly study some history and see if Daddy Government is walking the bride down the aisle or taking her elsewhere. Do not walk in the counsel of the wicked.
The most fundamental question is this: Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife? Mark 10:2. This question was answered by Christ himself. The immutable Christ of the Bible confirmed in Matthew 19:8 and Mark 10:9 that divorce has never been lawful, not even since the beginning of mankind. And humanity cannot separate a marriage (Matthew 19:6). That’s how it is! Divorce is never lawful according to Christ himself.
And NO, he did not say that adultery was grounds for divorce. He said in Matthew 19:9 that fornication (not adultery) is the ONLY cause a man can put away his wife. Fornication (the original word was porneia, from which we get our English root for pornography) can only occur before marriage, after that it would be adultery, not fornication, violating the 7th Commandment. This passage was never misconstrued before an 1857 English law created our first so-called Christian divorce court. The divorce courts of England were established on the questionable premise that Christ must have meant adultery when he used the word for fornication. By the way, the root of the word lawyer is attribution, which means to twist.
Yes, divorce is mentioned in the Bible. But in the Bible it only refers to living apart. Nowhere in the Bible does a divorce cancel a marriage. Remarriage was always adultery (Matthew 5:32, Luke 16:18, Matthew 19:9, Mark 10:11-12, Romans 7:3).
Throughout the history of Christianity, traditional wedding vows would include terminology such as: “till death do us part,” “as long as we both live,” and “all the days of my life.” These are not just romantic sayings; they are enforceable votes, enforceable in all courts. They are solemn vows to God (Matthew 5:32-37) and to the spouse and to humanity.
And Supreme Court decisions up to the 1890s also confirm this well-established law. As William Blackstone so eloquently explained in his Commentaries on the Law: Nor could there be any other law.
According to an 1873 Encyclopedia of Law: Proof of a church marriage would stop any divorce case in America.
In 1888, the US Supreme Court, using English divorce as precedent, authorized statutory divorce for mixed marriages, but proclaimed that traditional marriage remained a lifelong relationship. Since then, lawyers have worked persistently to wrest this key to knowledge from you.
The Supreme Court in 1923 still insisted that marriage is a protected constitutional right and falls within its definition of liberty. They said the right to marry, raise children, and worship God according to the dictates of their hearts were all within their definition of protected liberty.
The legal definition of marriage that was established in the Garden of Eden was perfectly acceptable until activist lawyers changed the law book definition in 1979. But they changed it to a definition that has never existed. They want you to believe that divorce cancels a marriage. But if Christ was right, marriage is until death.
There is still a chance that you can get the blessings of freedom. No Supreme Court has ever ruled that divorce cancels a marriage. Why do not you do it. That’s not what divorce is. Divorce is a determination that the marriage never existed. Divorce determines that the marriage was invalid due to a faulty original marriage contract (or some other pre-existing conditions, such as incompetence, minor age, or incest). All children of divorced parents are bastards. Don’t let the divorce industry determine your moral values for you.
If you don’t want daddy’s government to force you, then learn to defend marriage.
For the rest of the story, I recommend the book Defending Marriage: A Traditional Values Textbook for Marriage Advocates. Available at http://www.marriage-truth.com/ebook.
Yes, you can have your classic fairy tale wedding; just make sure the evil foster uncle doesn’t force you to give up his future children.
