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I am still formulating my opinion on this but I am confident that when I am finished I will have the right opinion.

Sorry, but I'm never one to run away from a fight, especially when it involves one's morals and principles.

IF you remove the references to marriage in the legal code, you have ceded the battle to the evil among us and given them a victory at some level.

Never back down from evil, never.

I hate to break this to you, but I would make the case that the battle was lost to the evil among us the moment the legal code was allowed to take root in an institution where the state has no business at all. That's the basis of the previous comments on this thread related to Pope Leo XIII and his document related to the sanctity of marriage.

In a secular social order, nothing that comes under the purview of the state can ever have any "sanctity" -- by definition. It's an abomination to suggest that a sacramental relationship such as marriage can ever be subject to the whims of a legal process involving a "license" of some kind.

I think it's no coincidence that the people I know with the strongest religious inclinations are also the ones who seem to be the least concerned about this whole "gay marriage" issue. It's not that they've surrendered in any way on the issue, either. It's just that -- like me -- they never gave a damn about what any government says about the institution of marriage.