Because too many in government are increasingly unwilling to defend marriage as God defines it, it is time to return marriage to the private sphere where it came from. Gays can get married but will not be able to force others to approve of it, and will not be able to force others to serve and enable what God defines as sin. If liberals demand that we remove the Ten Commandments from any government venue, they cannot attempt to cling to one of the points of the Ten (marriage) in their attempt to destroy the values they put forth.
I don’t hate homosexuals. It is instructive that they think of me as their enemy. When we get government out of the marriage business, then we don’t have to go through a culture war to determine who gets to control government, and by which one side or the other will get to use government coercion to get our way in society. Maybe this also should demonstrate that a government big enough to decide this issue instead of leaving it as a private matter is a government that is too big.
See, that's the whole thing right there. They don't want tolerance, they want APPROVAL. They feel so completely threatened by people saying "we celebrate the marriage of a MAN and a WOMAN" and when they hear that, they go all to pieces.
It's like people who insist on wearing dirty clothes and not bathing feeling all upset over a bunch of people who say "we like being clean, and we like wearing nice clean clothes." Being clean is a choice.
This has been flown in the past and passed on because governments did get involved in marriage in the past, and why should a cherished tradition get trod upon?
But recently even Pope Francis alluded to an alternative official concept, that of household. It wouldn’t need to have anything to do with sex at all.
It would have to be done in earnest, however. NO government marriages of any kind any more. Now the atheists will scream.