You gave government the power to “license” marriage for tax breaks and legal reasons.
Now you complain that the gay Left, overwhelmingly Democrat, is using it to force the law to recognize them as “equal” under the law.
And this is the libertarians fault because they feel it should have been left up to your Religion and never part of government in the first place?
Again, you are barking up the wrong tree here.
[ You gave government the power to “license” marriage for tax breaks and legal reasons. ]
Speaking of tax breaks, ias it any wonder that LBJ was insturmental in setting up the 5013C that has been used as a “lever of power” to ply churches and religious institutions to become tools of the state message....
We need to storm the control room and start breaking the levers off at the base....
Really? Marriage licenses go back about 700 years.
Sometime divorce lawyer, Thomas Jefferson bought a marriage license well before the United States even existed.
The federal government was making law regarding marriage from 1780 on, the Continental Congress, and then the Congress in 1794, 1798, 1802, and so forth.
An illustration of why libertarianism has a fatal error.
Reasonable people of most stripes share one concept: that civil society needs liberty but it must be ordered liberty. Childrearing, cohabitation, etc without any sort of order means societal chaos.
The government has an interest in assuring that children will be reared in a stable home environment. Historically this has meant married parents. Precisely to the degree that this meaning has degenerated, society has become less stable and less civil, and children are among the worst victims.
Libertarians have never come to terms with the clear unblinking reality that liberty must be ordered by an overseeing agent, i.e. representatives of the people invested with the authority necessary to fulfill that responsibility.