So then it's really still the government that grants marriages, it has just delegated it's authority to a conservative and bigoted religious body, resulting in de facto miscengenation laws and a near impossibility of introducing basic stuff like same-sex marriage.
So then it's really still the government that grants marriages, it has just delegated it's authority to a conservative and bigoted religious body, resulting in de facto miscengenation laws and a near impossibility of introducing basic stuff like same-sex marriage.
In Iran, draconian religious law is handed down by a group of clerics with unrestrained state power.
Progress will be when Iran includes Paladins in the exercise of power.