So, in your view, a couple that is not religious cannot marry?
I said nothing about those who are not religious being unable to marry, nor did I suggest it. Where did the institution of marriage originate in the first place? Who created it and for what purpose?
What about couples from different religions? That was my situation - Mrs. Jazz and I are of different faiths. So we got married before a judge. So is my marriage invalid in your eyes as well?
I lived in India. Marriage is a big deal in India - especially for Hindus, and despite how they treat women - those marriages are obviously valid in the eyes of God. I got married before a Justice O The Peace decades ago, same as you. I said nor suggested nothing about invalid marriages between a man and a woman. Civil society was established so as to protect and promote the foundations of said society - of which marriage and biblical principles - were a central core.
Despite the depravity of Caligula's Rome - not even they messed around with redefining marriage.
The reality is that the civil law attaches valuable rights and benefits for those couples willing to take on the obligations of civil marriage. As such, civil marriage is subject to the equal protection of the law.
Marriage is marriage - between one man and one woman as it was intended from the beginning. A society that promotes that, even in the civil sense - ensures it's posterity. But when you want to pervert that institution - then Pandora's box is opened - and if you want to hand out 'equal protections under the law' - then you will be making Beastiality, Polygamy, Pedophilia, Necrophilia and every other assorted sexual appetite a people demand "the right" to practice with 'equal protections' (meaning forced acceptance) and you will empower government to define and decree what is and is not acceptable sexual behaviors regardless if it is current deviant behavior or not.
And that is exactly what you are living in. And it is the catalyst to the ruin of society and liberty.