Monster said:

Apparently, atheists must fight to get married now. Sadly, this isn't the first time I've heard of this.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/05/...ciant-told-us-we-had-no-right-to-get-married/

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This could be easily solved by getting government out of the marriage licencing business altogether. Civil Unions for everyone.

tinselwolverine said:

This could be easily solved by getting government out of the marriage licencing business altogether. Civil Unions for everyone.

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Or by making sure religious affiliation doesn't matter when marriage is being performed by government...as it is supposed to be.

tinselwolverine said:

This could be easily solved by getting government out of the marriage licencing business altogether. Civil Unions for everyone.

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If you get the government out then you have nobody left to handle it but religious organizations.

I have no problem with how marriage licenses are done now, this was a case of the officiant causing the problem, not really the government.

And I can't really get too worked up about this because if the two knuckleheads has said right away they wanted a non-religious ceremony, they would have gotten the other officiant right off the bat and this would be a non issue.

I'm with Tinsel. Separate Church & State on this one, even in the language. You need one word for religious ceremonies or sacrament and a separate word describing the legal contract.

looks like Franklin Co, VA is more in the dumb white trash part of the state. this is just some wayward hick county officials screwing up. sue the shit out of them, get married, and move to civilization.

My dad the pastor is doing our ceremony, and he's perfectly fine doing a completely secular one.