“Clanging cymbals” are manifested in clanging symbols.
The ancient Holy Sacrament of Matrimony, aka “marriage”, was first and wholly a religious rite and a “contract” between God and man.
What it has become now, in the USA, is a pedestrian social event, recently turned into a political statement, neither event of any consequence in the Heavenlies.
It is as a disguise on Halloween, unreal pretense and laughable on its face.
Civil contract as a point of some kind of meaningful legitimacy is also a charade against reality. The only valid and quite secular reason for recording a Sacrament of Matrimony would be for census purposes only.
Radical, I know, but accurate.
Yes!