[GovernmentShrinker]

If the word "marriage" doesn't appear in any laws, then it won't matter a whit if people have widely varying definitions of the word.

Your suggestion that the "traditional family" needs to be registered with the government, so that the government can maintain its little schemes to give back a small portion of the many tax dollars which the government confiscates from said families' members, is too preposterous for words. Lower taxes for EVERYBODY by getting the government out of many of the things it currently meddles in, including marriage.

[King Prout]

GS - yes, precisely.
Risk,
additionally, by allowing the government to have official input on the issue, you open yourself up for the governement to have an input YOU DON'T LIKE on the issue - input which essentially equals the fed and state govs taking the homosexual agitators' side in the ongoing culture war.
That's... remarkably short-sighted.