[Pearls Before Swine]

Mary, Mary... quite contrary. It isn’t marriage marriage. It gets an asterisk in my record book. Why pretend otherwise?

[oldbrowser]

States have regularly taken action to enact civil marriage with clear exemptions and protections for churches, synagogues and other religious entities. No matter what happens with same-sex marriage, that will not change.

Okay, so they've had "civil unions" for some time now. But still they insist on "Marriage". I think that this is all about their own self doubt. They know it's wrong and they want us to jump through hoops to try and make them feel better about their insecurity. The problem is in their heads and nothing we can do is going to make it better.