I never said gay marriage (or straight marriage for that matter) is a civil right. Marriage equality is a matter of the equal protection of the law. Once the state offers valuable benefits and protections to couples who marry, those benefits and protections must be extended both same sex and opposite sex couples.
You have indeed cited it as a right in the past...even tried rather lamely to say it's a Constitutional right.
You're wrong in both areas.
And this has nothing to do with slippery slopes or religion. This is about the benefits and protections afforded by the state to civil marriage. Every church has the right to decide for itself whether to solemnize and respect a civil marriage.
Then get a civil union and be done with it.
Don't try forcing an abomination to the term "marriage" onto the public and try and force us to accept a perversion as normal.
Then don't get all butt hurt when people push back against what you're trying to force them to accept.
And Ministers and Priests don't conduct "civil marriages" there's no such thing inside of a church.
Civil marriages/unions are conducted buy a Judge or a Justice of the Peace.