Unfortunately, the idea of "defining marriage" as NOT being a compelling interest of the state is a position fraught with unintended idiocies that would make themselves apparent after the good intention is manifested.
However, please feel free to try to make a cogent case for why marriage should not be in the interest of the commonwealth.
>However, please feel free to try to make a cogent case for why marriage should not be in the interest of the commonwealth.
If the fact that the government can twist marriage to be whatever an unelected official wants it to be isn’t good enough cause for removal of government from the picture, then nothing is.