[McGavin999]

You are correct. Government can only acknowledge marriage they can't establish it or change it. If they attempt to "force" the issue nobody wins because everyone will turn their backs on the institution and laugh at those who think they have "changed" the word enough to make the world accept them.

I have friends who are in a committed relationship and I don't think they are not committed to each other because they don't have a marriage certificate. I have other friends who are married but I know for a fact that one of them is not in a committed relationship. The word has nothing to do with it, nor does the legality.

[DNA.2012]

Read the news, governments are instituting a new thing called “gay marriage” across the country.