They would never give it up at this point. The state needs a way to manipulate the culture, conditioning people to rely on the state to define marriage for them allows that. The homosexualists need a way to punish those faiths who are never going to buy into it, so they need the state involved. What’s probably going to happen is that those faiths that don’t take their marching orders from the state will stop acting on the state’s behalf civilly, and just take the punishment for not going along.
Pope Leo XIII warned about the dangers of state involvement 130 years ago, in the context of divorce and remarriage. He was obviously a well known raging libertarian atheist who only wanted to advance the homosexual agenda. It’s the only thing that makes sense.
Freegards
What a useless and irrelevant thing to bring up all the time, he sure didn’t help the GOP in it’s fight against polygamy in the mid 1800s when a religion started practicing it.