Don-o. Perhaps I’m missing something here, but aren’t we implicitly assuming that these so-called marriages are being sanctioned and performed in Christian churches? Is that really the case?
Caesar can use his civil authority to call any ceremony anything he wants. He could call himself Pope if he wanted to. He could sell licenses for people to call themselves Cardinals if he wanted to. In the eyes of the church, it doesn’t make it so. If he wants to say that two men, three women, and a yak are “married” under his twisted definition of the term, it doesn’t make it so in the eyes of the church, either. So he collects his $100 and makes some grand prouncement about the men, women, and assorted beasts being civilly joined in eternal sodomy. That really has no bearing on the church. As far as the church is concerned, the ceremony has no sacramental value.
I wonder if we’re making a mountain out of Caesars molehill?
We can look at the history of Western Civilization and learn of the contribution and influence Christianity made. We can also look at various attempts in that history to purge Christianity from from society. We can see what a society influence by a fanatical, bloodthirsty religion looks like today.
I think our best bet is sticking with the traditional values of Western Civilization.