civil marriage has been around a couple thousand years or more and has been the foundation of civilization
now some morons want to get rid of the foundation of civilization
I don’t care if these people live together, the state should never recognize this arrangement as a “marriage”
My point is that recognition of marriage is no business of the State at all. You are conflating government with civilization and society. That's what liberals do. Government is not civilization, and it's not society. It's government - and in America, at least, it's supposed to be severely limited. Starting with religion.
But two same-sex people can get married? Because there are now 19 states (and counting) that say they can.