Reply #83: "Marriage" is the word used in state constitutions to define the union. Religions don't own it.

[Gormy Cuss]

A marriage performed by clergy and not recorded properly in the municipal jurisdiction is not a civil marriage. Clergy in the U.S. are free to marry groups of people and recognize them all as married within the faith. The state on the other hand doesn't recognize it.

Creating a new designation to appease the obtuse thinkers who believe that 'marriage' only applies to their own sacred context is dumb.