Well, they’re doing a piss-poor job of it. Screaming for the government to pass a law/change the constitution in regards to gay marriage hands the power to define marriage *TO* politicians.
If conservatives wanted to leave marriage to the realm of religion, we’d be fighting to keep marriage *AWAY* from government.
And about the only people out there that even talk about that sort of thing are libertarians.
:-(
Marriage has always in the history of civilization, had recognition by the state, whatever kind of government large or small. This is natural. Married couples have their own status which is different from single people or dependent children.
The only group of people at fault are homosexual activists, their assistants on the left, the fools who are taken in by sentiment (ooh, those poor gays, victims, we shouldn’t be mean to them) and liberaltarians who just want a hedonistic free for all.
Which of course would quickly become chaos, than barbarism, than totalitarianism. Since libertarianism is akin to an opium cloud dream that has never and can never exist in the real world.