Any criminal can issue a licence for anything, but that doesn't really mean they control it, or that it actually matters to them.
Marriage is a sacrament. And governments, around here, don't offer those.
They give you pieces of paper, and bills, instead. But no sacrements.
/johnny
The govt. licenses marriage and thus the govt. controls marriage.
Look at divorce: who gets what isn’t decided by a church, or the couple, or any concept of sacramental bonds, but rather by govt. courts.