The government doesn’t deserve revenue from marriage in the first place.
Deserve’s got nothing to do with it. We wanted marriage to have legal implications, which made it a legal matter, which made it a licensed matter, which meant they were going to charge for it. And now Mississippi is opting out of the revenue, but anybody with half a brain knows they’re still going to get stuck enforcing the legal ramifications, so it’s a losing proposition for them. Plus of course if people can’t get their license from Mississippi then people are probably going to start having their wedding in the state they get the license from. The average wedding costs over 26 grand, that’s a lot of tax revenue they’re also going to lose.