weddings have not always been religious either.
in fact, in USA, a marriage is a legal contract, which you have to swear an oath to get before you have a wedding ceremony. There are official paperworks, and documents, and in some places blood tests.
also, if you are a man and live with a woman, or vice versa, for oevr 6 months, sharing expenses for living, you are automatically treated as common-law married. and common law spouses does not apply to gays living with each other and sharing expenses for years or decades.
it is straight up discrimination.
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