If two people love each other and live together and want to be married, but legally cannot be, then their ability to say- inherit the home they own with their significant other becomes complicated. Their ability to collect retirement or social security benefits after their passing becomes complicated.
So just like we allow non-religious straight couples to marry outside of a church, we can likewise allow gay couples to marry outside of a church because this is a LEGAL ISSUE NOT A RELIGIOUS ONE.
Your church doesn't have to believe gay marriage is biblical marriage, for it to be a legally binding government marriage.
If you don't like the sharing of the word, you should advocate for all government-recognized marriages to be called civil unions, not a marriages. Since my husband and I opted out of getting married in a church because we come from different Christian sects, perhaps that would mean I'd be changed to a "civil union", but perhaps that is just what happens when folks can't recognize a word can have two meanings.
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