Quote Originally Posted by euphemia View Post
I agree with you in principle, Gunny, but not in practice. In today’s terms marriage has a contractual element to it with regard to property ownership and custody of minor children. We cannot ask a pastor, priest, or rabbi to marry people who asked to be joined outside the doctrine or confession of the church.

It has been many years since church records were considered official for anything.
Why not simply write powers of attorney for each other instead of begging the government for permission to love one another?