Because same sex marriage is not a natural or inalienable right but a government given right and they know it.
Seems to me a faith can accept what what they want about who can be married despite what the state says about it, or how the state decides what definition it uses at any one time.
“Why else would the homosexualist left be so hell-bent on enforcing this issue on everyone via the force of the state?
Right, they need the state involved so they have a way to punish those who don’t buy into ‘gay marriage.’ But that doesn’t explain why a faith would only act on what they believe to be true if the state approves of it first, in my opinion.
Freegards
“Seems to me a faith can accept what what they want about who can be married despite what the state says about it, or how the state decides what definition it uses at any one time.”
That’s because you’re using rational thought, something these ELCA libs abandoned long ago:
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=romans%201:18-32&version=NKJV