I was at an event at a Catholic College last week and a Priest friend of mine {very conservative guy} told me he has the solution, at least for the Catholic Church.
The Pope announces that the Catholic Church does not perform marriages, that it only performs, " The Holy Sacrament of Matrimony" which is defined as The Sacred joining of one man and one woman for life...period.
He then added that we can all stand back and watch the rest of the fools and sodomites "go to hell".
I could add nothing else after that.
Yep. ‘Holy Matrimony’ is the key.
those “marriages” will be meaningless in the eyes of the law. No inheritance rights, no tax protections, no pension benefits, nothing.
I think the discussion today should be when is the first animal and human marriage?
Your priest friend is on the right track.
That is indeed the solution. Churches will have to explicitly separate the religious from the civil ceremony. In principle, the civil “ceremony” is nothing more than signing a contract.