“Come on, you know marriage isn’t what homosexuals are after by now, don’t you?”
I’m not disagreeing with that but one current major push is on the marriage front with an emphasis on “equal rights”. The equal rights argument is largely a farce as homosexuals have the same right to marry as heterosexuals. Either can marry someone of the opposite sex and neither can marry someone of the same sex. (And often neither gets to marry their first choice :) )
The problem is that by virtue of marriage some people have legal rights that unmarried people (homosexual or heterosexual) do not have. That’s because the government at various levels has provided those legal rights.
Get the government out of marriage as far as possible and the problem goes away or at least is lessened.
I believe the institution/custom of marriage predates and exists independant of government, so what should government involvement be and why?