Government should get out of the marriage business once and for all. It’s not like they’ll go broke from the loss of licensing fees...
There may be merit to what you say, but to do so now is appeasement to the force of evil.
Your "RETREAT!!!!!!" Strategy will simply embolden the enemy. I wish you and other people would stop mentioning it.
That's probably not going to happen. Civil marriage has a long history in America dating back to the Colonial period:
MATRIMONIAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE UNITED STATE8 - By George Elliott Howard
Cordially,