Honestly If the State wants to be involved in marriage this is the only useful way it could be involved.
That being said If the State wants to fix some of the damage it did, it should offer a variety of contractual packages.
At least one of which should include Life time Commitment(IE: no Divorce).
Legally speaking they would all have to be defined in intrastate terms, so that other states and Washington can’t interfere. Althou you can give theses contracts a legal equivalency to marriage it must be clear that the important ones are exclusive to families(child rearing man-woman pairs) The others should be created just to give liberals, sodomite, animal, and inhabitant object perverts something to wast their time and money on, while permitting us to legally argue for them keeping their hands off the meaningful ‘marriage’ contract.
It may be a bad idea, but it something we can do to help regrow the seed of western civilization we save in ourselves and families and posterity.
Just remember ultimately in the long run the leftist and sodomites will die out as their natural tendency is toward few to no children. If we follow them in that tendency we will die out with them but one way or the other they will die out leaving behind a land to be run by foreign cultures that don’t follow that fatally flawed wickedness. We, or rather our posterity can either be part of that future or we can die out with the self-destructive leftist ideals that dictate life in the “politically correct” present.
I agree with the civil contracts. Let the government deal with the civil contracts and let the churches deal with marriage.