w00t w00t booyah

i plan to be married, and i have no religious inclinations at all. unless we're considering atheism to be a belief system... to be married for me is more than just going to the courthouse and signing a piece of paper--it's a commitment to another person that i will love and care for them, and that I really do mean it, and intend to go on loving and caring for them indefinitely. to me this has nothing to do with god.

...not to be difficult, but having consulted the dictionary.com, none of the modern definitions of marriage particularly invoke religion at all. legal union is the first definition, followed by wedlock, then common-law marriage, and another definition for legal union... only easton's 1897 bible dictionary cites a religious component to marriage, and it's probably a bit out of date by now. ^_^