[old and tired]

If you don't think the day is coming when Catholic priests, as representatives of the state, will be legally required to perform gay marriages, you're kidding yourself. When they refuse to do it, their powers to perform a legal marriage will be stripped and we'll have to be married twice, once sacramentally by a priest, and once by some idiot bureaucrat.

It's already done this way in some European countries (princess Grace of Monaco comes to mind). I don't care a rat's ass about the state and I've said from the beginning of this whole gay "marriage" debacle that the only way out was to remove the state from the marriage business.

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

"...and we'll have to be married twice, once sacramentally by a priest, and once by some idiot bureaucrat."

I don't care if I'm married in the eyes of the state or not. If such a system comes into place, I'll get married in Church and let the bureaucrats count me as a cohabitant or whatever they wish.

[ansel12]

No that isn’t going to happen, clergy are not an official position for any government office, they do the marriages that they want to do.

People don’t just go into churches and demand to get married, like they can with a government official, who isn’t his own boss.