The building of the church has a special meaning to be distinguished from public hall and business meeting place. They are separated and dedicated to specific purposes of worship, religious education, fellowship, and service. The spiritual department of the church building should prevail over the church building itself and the community that has witnessed and planned it. Individuals and groups traditionally using church buildings include staff of the church, congregation, organization of the church, wedding reception, funeral and sectarian institutions.
Christian church is not the only church. This is one of many. American Church - America has its citizen religion, its political party is a denomination. Scientific Church - Science has become a philosophy; transcends methods or corpus, a series of political, philosophical, economic and religious beliefs. The same church overlaps the atheistic church. There is also a military church; as an organization, the army developed
In the turmoil of the separation of the church and the nation raised in the United States, there is a state church in England. That is the British National Church. On the other hand, the church is a religious institution that spreads the gospel of Christ. On the other hand, it is a state institution that has fulfilled its religious doctrine when trying to unite the country. For example, the church never adopts Christian pacifism. Because it is responsible for providing the pastor to the army. If you want to participate in the church's wedding, your local diocese has to marry you regardless of your religious beliefs. You can adore the Jedi Knights, and your lover may be a Satanist. Anyway: As long as you are a heterosexual British citizen, the National Church must marry you.
Due to the legitimization of same-sex marriage, the Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church (National Church) must allow homosexual couples to marry in church. But church clerics do not need to attend gay couples' wedding ceremonies. In addition, the law allows other religious groups to decide whether to allow homosexual weddings in their church. In July 2010, Argentina became the first country to legalize homosexual marriage in Latin America. In spite of the strong opposition from the Catholic Church and the Evangelical Protestant Church, this bill passed through the two houses of the Argentine parliament and was signed by the president Christina Fernandez de Kirchner. The law sets out all the rights and responsibilities of homosexual partners (including the right to adopt a child) to marry a homosexual partner.