Let me guess; you’re all for “civil unions” for everyone, though.
Am I for “civil unions”? My personal opinion is that marriage is defined by Jesus as the union of one man and one woman. But if we are to live in a society with people who believe all manner of things, or who don’t accept there is a God, how shall we structure society so we all can get along?
Indeed, how many churches that hold to the Scriptural definition of marriage, will accept as married new a couple without demanding they disclose whether they were married in another church or in a civil union.
But what is to be done with citizens who reject God, but who want to be married? When marriage is removed from the realm of government and returned to being a private matter, these people can do as they please and it won’t matter. As of today, it does matter, especially when you disagree with how government defines “marriage”. Someone like myself cannot say “live and let live”, especially if I make wedding cakes.