Yes, I have noticed that people tend to forget that marriage is a legal contract between two people. As I'm sure you know, in much of the world there are two ceremonies - the civil one that makes the marriage legal and the religious one in the church.
I personally think Kim Davis has had her 15 minutes and now we should let her fade back to obscurity. But that won't happen because she is now a tool of the political Christian Right. And she is being represented by a law firm with ties to the Christian Right.