Disclaimer: I am steeped in Christianity as a person in almost every aspect of my life. I believe that the whole business of government being in the marriage business at all is ridiculous. All government "marriages" should be civil unions, be it between man and man, man and woman, woman and woman, man and toaster, whatever. That's what they are, civil unions. Unions created for legal effect by a civil system, not a religious one. That one semantic change would completely diffuse the justification behind a majority of same-sex resisters. Marriage should be the sole construct of the religions that give them context and meaning, and it should be up to them to decide on how to proceed with the issue. That being said, I am heavily in favor of religious institutions taking a long, hard, comprehensive look at their doctrines, purpose, texts, beliefs and mission in order to really understand if they should be excluding people based on how they were made. In summary: all marriages should be civil unions at the government's interest level, and marriage should be defined by religions, who should really work to be inclusive, but on their own terms.