I say let the licenses flow to all who can pay the clerks and let them proudly display the happiness, status and honor which the bill of sale bestows. Period. I can accept and tolerate those people who get "married" by The State or the courts or cruise ship captains or Prison Wardens or video hook ups or mail order or Wal-Mart coupons... but I don't respect them as much as bridegrooms and brides who believe in God and get married as He intends, as He Wills according to His Word. My Mother and My Father were married religiously: the whole 9 yards as per J-C tradition; in a consecrated place of worship in the presence of God, by a Man of God who invoked God's name and God's blessing upon the occasion and the promises sworn in His name. Thats a bon-fide wedding, accept no imitations. Divorces occur -sure. Las Vegas 'intoxicated' weddings occur -sure. Arranged or economically co-erced weddings occur -sure. But whether the participants in any sort of wedding at all are ever "Husband and Wife" in the eyes of God is up to God to choose, not me and not my J-C heritage. Whether any undertaking is blessed/approved by God depends on His Grace. Therefore He gives us all the right instructions to appeal to his Grace... and thats how we can have faith and confidence that we attain it.
If ungodly people want to mock Marriage they are free to mock away all day. Note that the pink elephant standing in the room here for those of the J-C faiths is the fact that millions of heathen marriages have occured and continue to occur; from Mecca to Mogadishu. God nevertheless loves those heathens and the deceived, we can be sure of that. And in the case of perversion activists looking for marriage certificates, who cares? What my wife and I and God have and hold is not devalued or threatened by a San-Francisco clerk's Xerox machine. Let them wave their Marriages Certificates and their State receipts around in their glee and their delusion; but don't ask me to respect them all that much; SF was the city that had the slogan "Tune In, Drop Out" and these are the activists who said "We don't need your 'stinkin' badges!'" in so many words. Yet here they are now, the hypocrits, saying that they have changed their monds and they really do covet acceptance and the lynchpins of American Culture -- they do want The State's stamp of approval. Stamp away I say. All the while the real questions for the Nation and the culture are
Be careful that your very right to say you don't respect certain kinds of liaisons does not go out the window.