Inheritance law, for example. Receiving your partner's social security payments upon their deaths, for example.
As long as their are legal benefits to marriage, it is a government issue.
Marriage is not inherently tied to religion (I got married in a park, not a church, because my husband and I were from different Christian faiths and neither of our family's ties to a church wanted to marry us without counseling to put us in the same exact Christian sect)
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