By that standard so would every other person be truly married in his head, let each individual live in his head and with his own definitons all he wants, just leave “marriage” alone.
As a man who’s been married for 20 years, let me be the first to declare that it’s not about definitions. I don’t care who calls what, what, because my relationship will remain unchanged. I’m all for getting government out of marriage. But then, I’m all for getting government out of most things.
All too often, I get the feeling that a certain brand of conservatism differs only from liberalism in the areas that it wants government to join them in forcing their beliefs on others. Both want intrusive government to invade the private lives of citizens to make them toe the line. In all honesty, they’re more alike than they’ll ever admit. Luckily, there are plenty of genuine small government conservatives that want to put a stop to it.