Should governments start regulating religion?

[Cobretti2]

Puppyroach said:

Cobretti2 said:

That is just stupid.

The church or the people getting married have to fill out the relevant government paper work anyway. It is no different that doing the paper work and getting an elvis impersonator  marry you in las vegas.

They are both government weddings. The only difference is that with a church one you get a free bonus God DLC.

If you believe in separation of church and state, it is the only logical conclusion. A priest should of course, like any other person, be able to get a permit to conduct marriages for the government´s account, but the ceremony must then be free from any religious influence in terms of speeches and so on. The government is a secular construct so it is only reasonable that religion is kept as seperate as possible from it, for the sake of both religious freedom and for the people.

Again that make no sense. It is just a ceremony, a theme on top of the government approved marriage.

How does it differ than those who have a klingon wedding?  or a lord of the rings wedding? or some other themed wedding?  if you gonna ban religious speeches and so on at church weddings may as well ban every themed wedding and tell everyone to wear pants because a secular construct should not identify male or females as gender equality may come into question.