Most continental West-European countries have adapted a strict separation between State and Church. So why would they outsource something with legal consequences to various religions?
Separating the civil/legal marriage from a religious one has also made it easier to open up marriage for same-sex couples. The law makes no distinction between couples but religions are free to follow their own ideals and cannot be forced to celebrating weddings of couples they don't want to marry.
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: I've never understood the reasoning behind
: having a civil and a religious ceremony.
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: The marriage between King Leopold III and
: Princess Lilian was not in the correct
: lawful order (discussed many times on this
: board) as they first married religious and
: afterwards had a civil wedding. This is
: against the law which says first a civil
: wedding and afterwards a religious one in
: Belgium.
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: Which wedding makes a marriage legal in
: Belgium? The civil wedding or the Church
: wedding?
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