Marriage is between two people and God, and any children from the union.
I understand the desire for some structure (and hence government involvement), but as the “gay marriage” nonsense shows us -— ANY government involvement is a bad idea.
Make it a private issue.
This is nothing more than gay anger than they can’t have something. Don’t buy into their jealousy.
Until the government makes good on this separation of marriage and state, I believe that anybody who takes marriage seriously should go ahead with the religious or “true marriage” and dispense with the “Government Marriage” part.
“Government marriages” have become meaningless, so why bother.