My father was a rock solid atheist, Ron, but I have no reason to believe he did not respect the marriage ceremony. He certainly appeared to respect it highly from anything I ever heard him say or do at various marriages he attended. He was conventional and traditional, and that's all you need to be to respect the marriage ceremony. You don't have to be religious.

Likewise, I have no particular reason to believe that Hitler did not respect the marriage ceremony. As he said, he considered himself too devoted to Germany to have room in his life for marriage and family. This does not imply disrespect for the institutions of marriage and family, it simply indicates a conscious choice to focus on something else instead. Hitler's official social policies appeared to be pretty strongly committed to the ideas of traditional German marriage and family (for "Aryans", that is....). ;-)

I hesitated to even bother commenting on it, however, because I fear it will trigger an endless series of counter arguments and objections from you, and I may end up with carpal tunnel trying to responding to them all. So if it does....I'll just pretend you have won and bail out of this thread, okay? ;-)