As soon as marriage is defined as a union between anything and any number of other things, it will simply be a legal contract much the same as any business contract. In other words, a civil contract. Marriage will not mean anything in this context.
Marriage can then be defined as biblical Holy Matrimony, to be performed within a church and apart from any civil action. The married man and woman can then do the civil paperwork for the civil stuff.
“As soon as marriage is defined as a union between anything and any number of other things, it will simply be a legal contract much the same as any business contract. In other words, a civil contract. Marriage will not mean anything in this context.”
That’s all it ever was to the state, at least in the modern era. It just didn’t come up for most until now. First time was civil divorce and remarriage, then easy and unlimited civil divorce and remarriage.
Freegards