No church has EVER performed a marriage.

[Fearless]

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Food for thought.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

1. ,...then by the power vested in me by the state of inebriation.

[idwiyo]

2. K&R

[JDPriestly]

3. Thank you. Civil marriage is different from religious marriage although

priests and pastors among others may be authorized to perform both.

Your church authorizes your religious authorities -- priest, pastors, elders, bishops, whatever you call them to perform the religious rites of marriage.

Your county clerk or justice of the peace or other government official gives you the authorization for a legal marriage.

You can conceivably have one rite or the other though very few would choose to have a strictly religious marriage without a civil one while many prefer a civil marriage without a religious one.

Why can't people understand that?

What your religion thinks of your marriage is between you and your religion. What the government thinks about your marriage is between you and the government.

And what God thinks of your marriage (assuming you believe there is a God) is between you and your spouse and God. Because in my opinion, whatever your church or religion or the government thinks, probably matters very little to God.

That's my take on this.

[Fearless]

4. Amen!

(So to speak)

[William769]

5. kick & recommended.