[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.

[mrsmith]

“I don’t care if I’m married in the eyes of the state or not.”

... until I want someone forced to recognize my marital or parental rights. As a hospital, school, probate court...