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I am a libertarian. My feeling on marriage is that the state should have NOTHING to do with it. Remove marriage licenses and the legal(tax and otherwise) ramifications of being married. Marriage is a religious institution and should be governed by the religious body that is preforming the union. There should be NO legislative definition of any facet of marriage at all let alone who can be married. I could really care less if the church of Star Trek wants to marry a human and a Klingon or if the Episcopalians wanna marry a couple of gay people.

This is just one of MANY cases in which the government sticking its nose where it doesn't belong has caused unnecessary heartache.

That the govt should get out of marriage is a separate matter. I'm sure you can make some good arguments on behalf of your position, but the idea that IF the people decide to give state recognition to traditional marriage, THEN they must also do the same for homosexual couples is absurd, and one can only arrive at it if they buy into the 'living Constitution' method of constitutional interpretation which has yielded a whole host of ludicrous Sup Court decisions.