As long as marriage is the object of the idolatry of culturally nostalgic church members, it is to be subjected to sacramental deconstruction, one in which, perhaps, virginity (which is much more about childlessness than sexual abstention) is remembered as a no less memorial way of Godliness. Every liturgical act is to be an act of entry into and journeying with the crucified Jesus, resurrected as he is, in all his now glorified disintegration. However, marriage has been dying for some time, at least in socially fragmented late Euro-modernity and the world it has—ever since it could—so violently colonized. The less marriage is idolized, the less it is to be addressed in and by a local church. However, a significant number of ecclesiastical institutions have invested “inherent meaning” in a certain historically relative and recent idea of marriage (often decorating their investment with biblical texts). This has occurred to such a degree that to perform a wedding under their authority makes it more than a little difficult to perform a sacramental undoing of marriage, i.e., under the bright lights of their cross-examination. And so, wherever an ecclesiastical institution polices the weddings performed by its licensed ministers, to the point of taking away the licenses of ministers who perform “the wrong kind of marriages,” the music of the sacramental de-throning of marriage is drowned out by the hammering, sawing, and drilling of ecclesiastical construction projects. And so, however much a pair or more of persons wish (for whatever good or bad reasons) to be married by the pastor or priest of a local church, the institution that has licensed the minister would so cast its cold shadow over the marriage-event that the minister would do well in that darkness not to officiate, that is, if those to be married are deemed by some committee or oft-changed handbook to be unmarriageable. Marriage in this present evil age, in and out of churches, is stamped as good and holy not because of its status in the Bible or in the traditions of the church or in God’s original plan for a man and a woman, but because, even in a world that needs and wants it less and less, it retains about it the fading vainglory of traditional romance, as any well-paid wedding planner would tell you, if not in these harsh terms.