I wish this were true when I got married -- I was married in a park, by a Judge -- would have saved us a helluva lot of money and trouble to find out 'Oh, hey...no church, no lawyer fees! See ya!' when the divorce rolled around.

If only churches can sanction marriages, and people who don’t want to go that route don’t have access to the term (for lack for better words), they could miss out on a lot of benefits the government gives to married couples. That’s precisely that problem the Supreme Court’s ruling on marriage equality was supposed to prevent.
This bill has been discussed by a few LGBT-friendly websites, but for the most part it has remained under the radar, meaning people aren’t even aware it’s being debated.
While it’s not likely that Berry’s bill passes, it’s important to pay attention because this type of rhetoric is becoming more and more common in our modern America, and it’s a threat to both same-sex and non-religious couples across the country.