The government has no place in the bedrooms of the nation.
Those who are religious should be free to let it guide what they do in their own bedrooms – but it gives them no say in what goes on in any other bedroom.
Marriage is the right of any two consenting adults. Legal marriages confer on partners certain rights and obligations that do not apply to unmarried couples. This is true regardless of whether the weddings are officiated by judges, justices of the peace or clergy.
If those who wish to be lawmakers can not park their religious beliefs about how other people should live at the door of the legislature, then they should seek employment as clergy where their flock wants to be told how they should live.
Same sex couples can not insist that every church must consent to officiate at their wedding.
Far too many lawmakers use their religion as an excuse to impose their narrow views on everybody else. It has been used to justify segregation, lynchings, the deportation and gassing of millions of Jews in the holocaust, genocides around the world.
Clearly there are so many compelling reason to keep issues of religion separate from issues of state.
Finally, same-sex marriage poses no threat to opposite-sex marriage. Within organized religions, the religious significance of marriage will not be changed because marriages of same-sex couples take place elsewhere.