There is the legal contract that the state recognizes. I don’t care about that. States can do what they want.
My wife and I made a contract before God, with the gathered folks and a Priest as witnesses. She and I could enter into THAT contract. Homosexuals cannot.
My argument has always been that the State has no business in marriage.
While you weren’t married by the state, you still made a contract and the state lays out the rules by how it is entered into and, more importantly, how it can be dissolved......
Should you and your wife divorce, God forbid, the state will try and see that the rights to assets are protected for both parties......unfortunately the church, nor you and your wife will perform that function.....