@majorrich I only knew of the Catholics doing mandatory sessions before marriage, which other Christian groups do it? Do the sessions cover the legal ramifications of civil marriage? I think possibly gay people understand the legal stuff better than straight people, that’s what they have been fighting for the protection if the laws. Straight people get married barely understanding the legal ramifications. They just do it as a matter of course. Getting married, get a marriage license, and then in America we mush it all together and allow clergy to have the power under the state to officiate. That’s a mistake. I think that’s why some religious people can’t separate religious marriage from civil marriage in their minds.
Also, one thing I forgot to point out above is a lot of gay people have been married to the opposite sex. They know all about marriage, legalities and otherwise.
I had a boss who was married to a gay man. They have three gorgeous children. He eventually left the marriage for a man. Or, maybe she left him in the end, I don’t know how it all went down.
Another coworker of mine, he dated a married man for a few years before he finally left his wife. The kids were basically grown by then, I think that why he finally was able to pull the trigger and leave.
I know quite a few stories like that. A famous example is the actress Fran Drescher was married to a gay man.
My gay BIL always thought when he was growing up that he would get married to a woman, because that was an expectation put in him by family and society. Thankfully, he never married a woman. He now is married to a man.