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This is correct if you live anywhere other than the US. Sadly, it is not a valid argument with seperation of church and state doctrine. When you make a religous rite part of the state or federal framework it in turn has to be secularised or it will violate church and state doctrine. This is less of a cultural issue and more of a federal legal issue at the highest and most foundational level. Remove church and state doctrine and marriage being enforced as a religous rite is applicable, but as long as it is recognised legaly and entangled in things such as tax or insurance frameworks it has to be secular within church and state seperation mandated countries like the US.