[Ransomed]

The reasons the statists scream over this idea is that they wouldn’t have a way to punish and to keep punishing those who they know will never accept whatever impossibility the state is calling marriage at the time.

Freegards

[Steve_Seattle]

"The reasons the statists scream over this idea is that they wouldn’t have a way to punish and to keep punishing those who they know will never accept whatever impossibility the state is calling marriage at the time."

I think this legislator is on to something. And you are right, too: the state senses power in defining what marriage is, and it does not willingly relinquish power. Churches should say: we do not recognize the power of the state to determine what - for us - constitutes a valid marriage. For us, it is a strictly religious vow, and is none of the business of the state or of the IRS. You can take your gay marriage and shove it.