[vipBrooriErok]

I think that, to the Church, the state's involvement in marriage is irrelevant. Strictly speaking, those married or divorced only through the state apparatus are neither married nor divorced, according to the Church. A marriage between two persons of the same sex or three or humans and animals would be impossible. It invalidates itself. I remember a case in Russia where, for a bribe, an unfortunate priest did a wedding service for two men. He was defrocked after that. And the church in which it took place was burned down and bulldozed. Everyone laments over the church, but they forget the seriousness of blasphemy.