Thank you for the reply.
If you never applied for the license but performed marriages in your faith apart from any state recognition, what happens? Does the requirement to get a marriage license only apply to those who have already received the license to solemnize? If you give up the license to solemnize, does the requirement to get a marriage license still apply?
Freegards
My sense is that a couple married exclusively in the church may be denied recognition of that marriage. Would the state do that?
I think they are vindictive. I think they would if they could.
In the Kentucky Marriage statute:
402.020 Other prohibited marriages.
(1) Marriage is prohibited and void:
(a) With a person who has been adjudged mentally disabled by a court of competent jurisdiction;
(b) Where there is a husband or wife living, from whom the person marrying has not been divorced;
(c) When not solemnized or contracted in the presence of an authorized person or society;
That underlined section suggests to me that a group such as the AMISH (a society?) can conduct their own marriages.
If so, then that kind of opening should also apply to other "societies". But I'm no lawyer, so my interpretation of that could be entirely wrong.