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There are over 1100 civil rights, privileges, and responsibilities that go with that piece of paper.
If it was 'just a religious ceremony', there'd be no issue whatsoever regarding same-sex weddings. Why? Because gays and lesbians have been getting married in churches, synagogues, temples, and in open fields for DECADES.
It's only when we go to the county and say, "I'd like a civil license please, so that I can visit my spouse when she's sick in the hospital. And for her to be able to inherit all my worldly goods when I die. And so we can file joint taxes. And so I can share in her pension. And so we can both have health insurance..." (Yes, it goes on and on and on.) Anyway, that's when my supposedly secular "wall between church and state" government says, "Nope, marriage is a SACRED institution, reserved only for heterosexual couples."
But whatevah...
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