OohPooPahDoo
Gold Member
I don't know how to make this any more clear - our church was not permitted to marry us unless we produced a marriage license from the state. Period.
Your church was not permitted to represent the state in officiating your entry into a public contract without said license. Your religious institution could perform any religious ceremony it wants; your marriage would just not have been recognized by the state as legal and binding.
YOu and seawatch should look up the relevant law before you make such presumptions.
Of course it would help if Rot told us what state he lived in and how many centuries ago he was married.