What religion? Islam, gay churches, Hindus, Mormons, what about atheists, or non-church/Mosque/temple joining people?
Should Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln have never bought a marriage license? Should George Washington not have sought so firmly to make sure that his marriage was legal by government definition?
A lot of atheists worship at the altar of climate change anyway, so maybe that could be their “religion”. And the Amish still use social ostracism to good effect-they call it “shunning” of course. As long as government doesn’t interfere with all their PC stuff, that shunning/ostracism does seem to work-but I digress...
Government is not worthy of trust in those matters now, if they ever were. I think most mosques are worthy of shunning and watching carefully lest they commit real crimes, but that is just my opinion.
Why not let each state decide the thing-I think it may all come out well-after awhile. I still believe that my marriage certificate signed by a clergyman-not purchased at the courthouse-should be just as legal as the courthouse one-everyone is entitled to their opinion, and while I respect that fact, I don’t care for my marriage before God to be in the same company with a state license that soon may be purchased by any combination of sentient beings and called a “marriage”-that is my opinion.