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This is completely accurate. Marriage, until recently, was always a religious institution.
Actually, THAT statement is completely inaccurate.
Until relatively recently, the church was always the government, and hence marriage was always a state function.
When the people finally started waking up to the evils of theocracy, and the churches began to break up....it was the state that retained control of the laws regulating marriages, not the churches....after all, just for one example, one wouldn't expect the Catholics and the Prods in Ireland to cooperate in their marriage rules...that's the state's job.
Still is.