Dear Yuyutsu - I am not aware of any law in Australia that requires a priest to report the sacraments they perform to the authorities.

Just checked the relevant website

http://www.justice.qld.gov.au/justice-services/births-deaths-and-marriages/marriages/marriage-certificate

and found

We register all marriages that take place in Queensland. A marriage must be registered before you can apply for a marriage certificate.

It should be noted that the certificate issued by the celebrant or minister of religion on the day of marriage is ceremonial and will not meet the identity requirements of many government agencies (e.g. Queensland Transport, Passport Office) and financial institutions.

If you were married outside Queensland, you will need to apply to the registering authority in the place where you were married.

Appears that Big Brother does indeed stick its grubby beak in peoples marriages

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for so long the regressive left tried to destroy marriage. How outdated they would scream. Wasn't it the PM or at least held the emily's list view that all wives are prostitutes. Well having failed to destroy marriage they now want to pervert it.

On the top of his website this guy has a quote by John Howard telling us that "truth is absolute".
What a very sick joke!
Never mind that Howard was a bare-faced liar especially in regard to the fabricated LIES for the illegal invasion of Iraq under the coalition of the killing .Under international law he should be prosecuted as a war criminal.
Instead he was awarded a "freedom" medal by the leader of the coalition of the killing for his services to what exactly - the devastation of Iraq and the now destabilization of the entire Middle East.
Not that the then status quo either in Iraq or in the region altogether was in any sense desirable or beneficial to the millions of down-trodden uman being that lived there.

Meanwhile back in the time of the Iraq and refugees on boats (manufactured crisis) one of the coalition Senators called Howard a lying rodent.

Rhrosty, "Clearly, the overwhelming bulk of the parliamentary Labour party are in favour of true equality"

WTF is 'true equality'?

Using 'equality', 'rights' and so on is rhetorical trickery to set up ad hominem attacks on anyone who disagrees with activists for gay marriage. It is using the Big Lie technique to negatively stereotype and knee-cap opponents. Useful where the activists cannont mount a convincing case and are forced to rely on emotive slogans and sledging.

It is absolute nonsense that the Marriage Act 'discriminates' against gays, which is being implied. Honestly now, if there was any discrimination the Australian Human Rights Commission would right be onto it like a fat kid with the last packet of Smarties.

Rudd never can resist the opportunity to goad the woman who displaced him. Rudd's support for gay marriage activists and the factional ginger group is an embarrassment to them, and to the Labor Party.

Dear Praxidice,

<<We register all marriages that take place in Queensland. A marriage must be registered before you can apply for a marriage certificate.>>

That's no problem for me because marriages are not taking place in Queensland (or in any other Australian state) - they take place in heaven!

Besides, I don't need their piece of paper called "marriage certificate", I just want to be married in fact, before God and before my family and friends.

Besides, in one year, whether we like it or not, the government would consider us "de-facto" which is the same nonsense anyway.

<<If you were married outside Queensland, you will need to apply to the registering authority in the place where you were married>>

That's called 'prayer', no worries!