Claim. Self-chosen, parent-bypassing marriage is the providential afterimage of the fall — Satan’s standing trap rather than modern emancipation.
Elaboration. SMM treats “free love marriages” as continuations of the original sin: “The free love marriages you see in the world today are traps set by Satan, trying to make people fall so they cannot move towards the presence of God. Once you are caught in this trap, you will spiritually die and be controlled by Satan, or become his prey” (1.2. The Blessing’s true perspectives on marriage, Blessed Family 364). The diagnostic is sociological as well as theological: “Because of widespread free marriage in modern Western society, particularly the United States, it is becoming more difficult to form true families. The number of people who fail in family life is increasing day by day” (ibid). The principial rule is parent-officiated marriage: “It is the fundamental rule that everyone must marry after taking into account the wishes of God and their parents. In spite of this rule, free love marriages have become possible due to the Fall. So, if this is not uprooted completely, we cannot return to the heavenly nation” (ibid, 82-115, 1976.1.1).