Thank you royalwing!!!

Thank you for making my point much more eloquently than I ever could. Only in America does the boundary of civil and religious marriage cross lines. Correct me if I am wrong. Perhaps I should have said only in the western world? A perfect example of this for those of us more "simple" minded folks, Prince Charles and Camilla. I remember vividly their wedding day. They and the "Family Firm" trotted down to the city hall and performed a "civil" ceremony to be legally wed in the eyes of the state, they then proceeded to the chapel to wed in the eyes of the church. Two distinctly and seperate situations. Only in America do the lines blur. I am sure there are other places, but most western world nations have seperation of the two. Where else in western society does the clergy perform BOTH. Where else does the clergy say "by the power vested in me by the state of ____ ?" Talk about violation of the speration of church and state?