NasstyNate
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Congrats on the upcoming marriage.This is simply not true for everyone anymore, if it ever was true for everyone. I am getting married in about a year and there won't be any mention of any religion during the entire ceremony. My good friend from India will be getting married in a couple months and there won't be any Christian symbolism during the ceremony. This weekend dozens of drunk couples will be married in vegas with minimal religious symbolism at best.
Marriage is religious for some, probably most people. For people who have strong religious beliefs, literally every major milestone in life has religious implications. But there are tens of millions of people who have been getting married in the US in ceremonies that don't have anything to do with the Christian god.
I realize it is deeply religious for you and i respect that. But i don't think that you would want to legally prevent me from marrying my future wife just because we don't have any religious association with it. And if you allow non-Christians to have non-Christian weddings, how is that different from allowing gays to have "non-Christian" weddings?
Trust me when I say religion plays no part in my life. I was merely using the historical definitions in a legal context. Often the law comes off as cold-hearted. I did not mean it as such and apologize if I did.