The civil marriage contract has been part of the government of this country throughout its history.
Even the Congress has involved itself in the protection of this most fundamental and important of human institutions. Four states were only allowed into the Union if they would forever foreswear plural marriage, Oklahoma, Arizona, Utah and Idaho.
Are you claiming that we've been living all this time in a "theocracy," instead of a constitutional republic?
The post to which I responded said nothing of “civil marriage,” Congress, or a constitutional republic. The post to which I responded referred only to the Bible.
To leave out that context in your response to me is at best an unfair tactic, at worst it’s flat out dishonest.