Reply #6: Yes, keep them separate...and it's all in how you define the words, really

[wildflower]

For example, one could define people who are legally married as "married," and those who are, additionally, married in a religious ceremony, as "married under God."

The former, legal marriage, would not discriminate, and would not interfere in what the churches do.

The latter, religious marriage, would not discriminate either, I hope. But if it did, people could decide not to join that church.

Above all, one wouldn't interfere in the other. (Government and religion.)

-wildflower