Civil marriage is a legal institution, not a religious one; the government's role is to provide equal protection under law.
This includes marriage between two citizens of the same sex. Allowing gay marriage doesn't take away rights from heterosexual couples; it simply extends the civil liberties to ALL citizens of America. In a pluralistic society, personal or religious beliefs have no right to determine who the state recognizes as family, a principle affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court in Obergefell v. Hodges, which held that marriage equality is a constitutional matter of liberty and equality.
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