Weird ramblings, that are irrelevant, I don’t care about you and your wife, and your own personal marriage, but you keep sharing with me anyway.
Activists know that they could have civil unions pretty easily, what they want is the word “marriage”, so as to destroy it.
You want to destroy “marriage” as well, making government civil unions (which would merely replace marriage) the norm, and allowing “marriage” to fade into obscurity as it becomes a little religious ceremony for some, in their individual churches, something for personal consumption only, but not applicable to society at large.
You legalize homosexual marriage and polygamy either way in your proposal.
That did not happen when we invented the "kiddie cocktail". Imagine if all the drunks got together and said if you make "kiddie cocktails" you will be diluting my drink. The state should not recognize the kiddie cocktail. The bartender would say, "No, I am still putting into your drink the same thing. This is different, and changes nothing that existed before it" I cannot get my arms around the thought that you have that the government is some how holding marriage as an institution together when it originated as a religious institution that was hijacked by the state. Yet you don't at the same time admit that the state has done just as much damage by allowing divorce. In fact, i would be willing to bet that allowing civil unions would do no more damage to the institution of marriage than divorce has. You and I can just disagree with this issue. In the end, I just think I have a better understanding of what is destroying our civilization than you do and I am sure you feel the opposite. I understand that sometimes minds cannot be changed and I am okay with that.