The state being involved in the marriage business is a very new development anyway, by human history standards.
For nearly all of man’s history, it was simple culture or local custom, or Churches which performed marriages. Society simply recognized them.
Many have been conditioned to believe that the state defines marriage. It’s one of the big reasons so many accept impossibilities like ‘gay marriage,’ of course it can exist, judges say it can, pols and voters have votes on if it can exist or not. The faith groups that actually accept ‘gay marriage’ won’t even hold ceremonies for their members until the state they happen to be in accepts it first, truly bizarre.
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