Goodness, what a load of crap. Quit mixing liberal driven pop culture with legal status for your rhetorical smokescreen. Marriage in this country has always been licensed. I have the county list of my gg-grandparents getting their marriage license in the 1840's, a few years after Iowa became a state. Divorce has nothing to do with a legal application for marriage or it's definition.
You can marry anywhere by anyone, but for legal purposes it has to be recognized by the govt. We continue to refuse certain types of marriage in this country for various reasons. Under your 14th Supremacist view those are unequal treatment.
Which does nothing to address the legal fallout. Is my church required to marry, is my business required to cater to, am I allowed to speak out against, every homo, transexual, polygamist, pedophile, Satanist, Muslim, or any other kind of wedding I may disagree with? Forced thought, agreement, and morality?
You want to talk about loads of crap?
You talk about the traditional, historical and biblical roots of marriage until it's no longer convenient to do so, then you shift to marriage on this country, as if the history of marriage confined itself to this country.
There were no "no fault" divorces (what I referred to in my post) in this country until 1969.
"Your" Church may decide to conduct same-sex marriages, the Episcopalian Church has already decided they will, if that happens, you'll have to either deal with it, or find another Church.
You can speak out against anything that you want to. Your problem, as I see it, is that you don't want anyone who disagrees with you to have the reciprocal right, when they do exercise that right.
You don't have to agree with, accept or engage in any activity that you don't want to, but you want to disallow people from engaging in activities that do not fit your morals, so who is forcing morality on whom?
We continue to refuse certain types of marriage in this country for various reasons. Under your 14th Supremacist view those are unequal treatment.Laws forbidding religious plural marriages are a direct violation of the First Amendment and as such, they are unconstitutional.