What you socialist statists will never quite get, is that in a free society churches get to make their own internal rules. To participate in the Roman Catholic sacrament of marriage, one must be a Roman Catholic. Nobody is *FORCED* to convert.
I'm sure you spent quite a bit of time "amongst 'em"....

Perhaps you aren't terribly familiar with the New York City of about 1977 thru about 1990....
I suppose the entire forum should just put you and Tom on "ignore" for any threads other than those dealing with the British Isles. Because we're "here", and you're "there". And being either here or there apparently trumps all facts and history in any discussion.