JayneOC wrote:

These people need to stop trying to make marriage a religious-only ceremony.  You can get married by a damn judge or justice of the peace and that has nothing to do with religion. If you don't want your religion to perform gay marriages, that's your right. But you can't tell the government that a civil servant can't perform them.


But if it was a religious only ceremony there wouldn't be any problems. As long as it's considered a government benefit, there will always be people that want to restrict who gets the benefits.