plk Posted:

Um, why do you bumume that marriage is a religious ritual at its heart? It may be religious from your perspective, but it really isn’t to everybody and hasn’t always been.

Because marriage has been religious a lot longer than it has been secular. It’s obvious in the very nature of the words used by the officiating person, who is almost unanimously a priest, done at a church.

Seems like a p religious ritual to me.