[Brutha]

I proposed that arbitration clauses in marriage contracts be given. Arbitration drastically reduces lawsuits.

Either you manage marriage top down from the government and you can control whether arbiration is involved or you let the free market decide.

I don't think ethnocentric is the best definition to describe either of us. I do however, think that there are certain core beliefs that the average European has about the government's role in people's lives.

I think that ethic arguments are the thing that's most likely to get the government out of marriage.
Nobody besides some ethinc groups really cares about the government laws interfering with marriage.

I always ask people of the US Gov't. Name one organization or budget they run properly.

I think that the US Coast Guards do a much better job than those in Somalia.

But if you want a government which runs properly you probably should go the Singapurian way and actually paying good salaries to the people who run the government.
If you speak about paying politicans more money you have a hard time in the West.

Since people could still get married under my proposal people would not loose any rights.

You can't simply created every right in a contract.
You can't make a contract as a American that gives someone from Iran the right to travel to the US.
You can't either make contracts that give someone the right to refuse to give evidence in front of a court.

For all those instances where it says marriage in the laws you need to find a replacement.
Those a dozens of different cases and in Germary we just had to add "or has a civil union" after every one of these.
If you however wanted to eliminate them you would to have think more about how that law should look like.