The Continental congress was defining legal marriage for federal purposes in legislation of 1780, with updating of that legislation in 1794, 1798, 1802, and ever since.
Government has always been a part of marriage, from Rome to Greece to Thomas Jefferson’s marriage.
Marriage still has to be recognized by government, and still is, what is this silly thing you keep saying? No government involvement in marriage? That is not an actual part of American history or man’s history, even the Apache and Mayans had marriage.
Try to focus on the actual issue of gay marriage, not this fantasy world of yours.
BTW here is the Constitution Onlines blurb about Marriage:
Under the Heading: Things NOT in the Constitution
"Marriage
In 2004, a lot of controversy began to swirl around the topic of marriage as homosexual marriage entered the news once again. In 1999, the Vermont Supreme Court ordered that the state must make accommodations for gay unions, bringing the issue into the public eye. Vermont created civil unions as a result. In 2004, the Massachusetts Supreme Court went a step further, and ruled that the state must accommodate not just an institution equal to marriage, as civil union was designed to be, but that gay marriage itself must be offered in the state. Subsequently, mayors in New York and California began to offer gay marriage in their towns and cities, citing civil rights concerns. Those opposed to gay marriage began to urge that an amendment to the Constitution be created to define marriage as being between a man and a woman only. Opponents of the amendment pointed to the failed Prohibition Amendment as a reason why such social issues should stay out of the Constitution. In the absence of any such amendment, however, marriage is not mentioned in the Constitution at any point."