Diuretic
Permanently confused
none of that chages the fact that marriage is a religious sacrment.
gov administering the laws of marriage? you mean gov meddling with religious sacraments
Marriage can be a religious sacrament, yes. Depending on the jurisdiction you'll probably find that the law allows marriage to be celebrated as a religious sacrament, it doesn't require it to be celebrated as a religious sacrament.
But if marriage was only a religious sacrament then it would have no legal basis, a bit like Holy Communion.
religious sacrments do not need the ok of the law. laws can be changed and manipulated to fit political agendas, the history of the religious rite of marraige is thousands of years old.
Religious sacraments shouldn't - if they are solely religious sacraments - require the approval of secular law, well as long as they don't breach secular laws. Do you agree with that?
Laws are changed all the time and in a liberal democracy they're changed in public, via the legislative process. If they weren't society would grind to a halt.
The history of marriage is interesting. It was a legal arrangement before it took on a religious hue.