[newzjunkey]

So 9 million years of evolution is not good enough for the Second Circuit?

What's that got to do with the package of legal rights and responsibilities conferred on pairs of individuals by government? As soon as term "marriage" was conceded to government control the argument was inevitably lost.

[muawiyah]

The only thing that got conceded to government was what was called CIVIL REGISTRATION ~ births, deaths, marriages....... neat way to keep people not members of the church (of whatever kind) out of the records.

At the time civil registration was created it was considered a great advance in civil liberties.