re: #79 redc1c4

why?

marriage is a religious institution, so the government has no buisness being in the marriage business: separation of church and state.

the government should simply recognize formal legal contracts between consenting adults, and adjudicate them through the legal system.

churches marry whomever they choose to. everyone wins, except the fringe on both sides, and the divorce lawyers.

Marriage is a social construct and it was religion and the churches that were some of the original institutions that brought about and enforced such constructs. Simply because they did it does not make it inherently religious. It might help to view secular and church sanctioned marriage as two similar but separate things with the same name.