“I’d like to see the government just get out of the business of defining marriage all together.”
I’ve expressed this view on FR before, as well. Prepare to get flamed by people who don’t understand that the inevitable result of government intrusion in this essentially religious area is a definition of (civil)marriage that most social and religious conservatives will find abhorrent.
I don’t even really think it’s a “libertarian” idea. It’s old-conservatism in the mold of Barry Goldwater. If we, as a movement, pick and choose when government intervention is okay then we’ve given up on the moral argument of freedom. If we argue that the “effect on society” is justification enough for government to decide what is and what is not okay to do, then we will one day have our rights infringed on on the same basis. Indeed, liberals today are arguing the same thing when it comes to health care. They can limit our freedoms because the overall effect on society will be a good one.