Majority Report: Why There's No Pleasing the Anti-Equality Right

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A listener IMs into the show to suggest maybe government shouldn't be involved with marriage in the first place. We discuss…

Filling in for Sam Seder: Majority Report contributors Matt Binder and Michael Brooks

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1. Civil and religious marriage already are two separate events.

You can file documents for a civil marriage and be married before a judge. You are legally married although you had no religious service.

When you also have a religious marriage, you may fill out the documents required for a civil marriage and then have the priest or rabbi or pastor who performs the ritual for religious marriage handle the legal details. You can also obtain your license for marriage and then take it to a rabbi, pastor or priest and have him/her perform the religious ceremony.

Some states may still recognize common law marriage.