Reply #81: A wedding can be religious. A marriage is a legal contract. [View All]

[ieoeja]

You get a license from the state. You sign a state marriage contract. That contract is filed with the state.

Notice the complete absence of anything related to religion in this process? You *can* hold a wedding ceremony at which the marriage is solemnized. You can also pray before a football game to solemnize it. But that doesn't make a football game a religious institution. Nor does it make prayer required to play a football game.

Marriage is no more a religious institute than is football. And in Texas, less.