text: Marriage is a choice not a right. Government should get out of the whole business as their only interest in marriage is tax purposes. Growing up catholic I was taught marriage in the church was a sacrament reserved for those who were baptized, with special dispensation for a Catholic marrying a non-Catholic. A sacrament is a religious rite protected under the 1st Amendment.  If the church wants to run as a tourist attraction for destination weddings performing secular weddings rather than the sacrament of marriage they  become subject to secular laws.