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.
No one forced you to get a marriage license, many don’t.
Quit whining about something that you insisted on doing.
The point that I’m trying to get at, is that we have marriage, and will always have marriage in America, and defining it will be won or lost in the law.
All this other escapism and fantasies, and wishing, won’t save marriage in America.
Just as we don’t have much interest in some Mormons off in Utah doing their own thing with their religious polygamy marriages, or people shacking up, well no one is going to care if you don’t get a marriage license.
What really matters is saving America, and that means finding a way to save marriage in politics and the law, not by dropping out.