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The REAL solution is the one that nobody ever hears about, of course... and it has NOTHING to do with sexual orientation, religious sacraments, Equal Protection, or Freedom of Religion. If government stopped treating MARRIED people differently from SINGLE people, this issue goes away in an instant! But our Beloved Overlords will never consider dropping one iota of societal control... ever... and so the media dances with glee about the ability to preside over a Constitutional argument where both sides have a legitimate claim. (And they relish opening the debate with a lie, that "gay marriage" should be legalized, even though NOTHING about making a lifetime commitment to someone of the same gender is currently illegal.)

The ONLY differences between married and single Americans are minor tax variations, a handful of probate rules, insurance regulations, and DNR decisions. Allow Americans the FREEDOM to choose who to put on their insurance, and allow insurers the FREEDOM to charge rates as appropriate by actuarial tables... tax us ALL the same, whether single or wedded... allow changes to DNR and probate defaults so that a lifetime loving partner can be chosen over a disapproving parent who hasn't talked to their child in decades... and the debate ENDS IN A DAY! But again, our government will never allow for more Freedom and slightly less control for themselves... so here we are.

You seem to be forgetting one teeny, tiny thing.

Via our tax laws we “condone” certain behaviors, behaviors that we, as a society have deemed beneficial to us all.

Owing a home is a good example. Homeowners are generally law abiding and have an interest in keeping their community clean and safe.

We give homeowners breaks on mortgage interest, home taxes....all federal tax breaks to ENCOURAGE people to become homeowners.

Same with marriage. Married folks tend to raise their children better, they are more stable, well hell, they don’t generally go spreading diseases all over the place.

So married people get tax breaks! Just like homeowners!

We’ve been doing this forever, quit acting so surprised.

If you want to take away tax breaks for married people than take away TAX BREAKS FOR HOMEOWNERS and any other such federal tax breaks we give out.

All good points. But not everyone agrees with these things. What do we do with that? What we've always done in the free constitutional republic of America. Let the people at the local levels decide for themselves. Those that agree, do it their way, and the localities/states who believe otherwise do it their way.

We don't need nor want some big lunk-headed federal government deciding our issues for us or else we're not free at all but under a totalitarian regime.