SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE

I've always considered marriage a church/state issue. Think about it. The marriage tradition is religious. The government secularizing this religious ceremony created the problems inherent in the religious questions over who can get married via the government, who can get divorced via the government, who can marry whom, and so forth. If the government would end its need to stamp its seal of approval on a religious ceremony then issues over religious beliefs within the government's secular activity would be moot.