I heard last week some State was considering dropping all marriage laws and just eliminate the term to avoid allowing gays to marry. The liberals with their gay agenda have so screwed the tradition and meaning of marriage. It is just a matter of time that the gay agenda will force all States to allow gay marriage. Maybe the States should come up with a term like civil unions and eliminate the marriage term from all laws. Let the Church’s issue real marriage certificates.
The government has long shown itself incompetent in management of things marital. I’m sure a vestige will remain, as in tax law. But to force a split between government “marriage” and religious marriage may be the only choice left. C. S. Lewis long ago proposed this.