[DBeers]

This issue is getting more and more “settled” by the day — but without any real consequence beyond what has already been in the works for a long time. Homosexuals are clamoring for the right to get married even as heterosexuals have been walking away from marriage for decades.

You lost me there. It seems you support a moral relative determination of truth e.g. the definition of marriage?

For example as it relates to government not defining but rather upholding INSTEAD of the definition of marriage we discussed the definition of life (to use your argument):

This issue is getting more and more “settled” by the day — but without any real consequence beyond what has already been in the works for a long time. Euthanists are clamoring for the right to Euthanize even as People have been increasingly committing suicide for decades.

[Alberta's Child]

My point is that the government (at any level) really never had any business getting itself involved in a religious institution like marriage in the first place. The whole idea of a "marriage license," for example, has no place in a free nation.

People with strong religious convictions have known this for a very long time.