“couples who belong to an Orthodox or conservative faith should be married by their church, and not even bother to get a secular marriage license.”
At least this debacle has a silver lining. We will know once and for all which churches intend to capitulate to the secular world and which churches remain steadfast to God’s word.
A church can meet anywhere and be of any size above one person. God is using the homosexual movement as judgement to test and purify His church.
A similar idea is for Christian businesses who do not want to be forced to provide goods or services to homosexual rites.
That is, churches can legally discriminate. So these businesses make an “exclusive” contract with a large group of Orthodox and conservative churches to *only* provide their goods and services to sacramental weddings carried out by those churches.
This means that part of their business is no longer public, so is not vulnerable to state or federal laws. And all the rest of their business can remain public.
If a state tries an end around to break these contracts, there is a huge amount of judicial precedent supporting them, and business would fight it tooth and nail, because contracts are so essential to business.