The LDS bowed to the state when it came to their wackadoo teaching on polygamy. That’s on them. But there are many faiths that will never buy into whatever impossibility the state puts forth as its ever-evolving take on marriage. Just like Baptists won’t stop baptizing or Catholics won’t stop private confession, no matter what the state happens to think of the practices at any one time.
And I don’t care who says it, foreigner or not, the state doesn’t define marriage. Anywhere. Sometimes the definition it used coincided with the real definition, sometimes it doesn’t. For some faiths, the state’s definition hasn’t been legit for a long time. It’s just that ‘gay marriage’ is being framed as some sort of civil right, and civil divorce and remarriage hasn’t. Yet.
Freegards
How much control over marriage did the Pope have during centuries of history?
Did he make the law for everyone? What was the law for non-Catholics?
Your preference for letting Islam define marriage, or to let the church of the gay blades decide marriage, isn’t very appealing.
Either way we get not only gay marriage and polygamy, but everything that every weirdo and atheist can come up with.
Baptists confess in public.