[Arguendo]

You could argue that it’s not the government’s role to enforce morality (which is dubious but a more nuanced argument that resembles this can be made). More reasonable, you can argue that you don’t trust the government to enforce a morality you like, so you’d rather not push moral issues when you have a slim majority and set a precedent that could very easily swing the other way.

You could argue that the government should not even be in the business of issuing “marriage” and thus for political reasons oppose things that “strengthen” marriage as a legal institution.

There are probably any number of others I’m not thinking of. Opposing Prop 8 does not mean endorsing gay marriage or the homosexual lifestyle.

I’m not saying I subscribe to these arguments (as I stated, I supported Prob 8, though I think at this point it would be better if marriage were a religious institution, and the government’s primary involvement was in dealing with the contract involved), but they’re certainly not antithetical to Christianity.

[OneVike]

I will say this, until the government decided it could make money by taxing marriage, IE issuing marriage licenses, they church was the only establishment that any say in a couple being married or not.

So, I stand corrected and you are right. However, our government was supposed to be influenced by Godly men to keep our society a moral one. Once we started down the slippery slope of Church/State separation we were bound to reach this moment.

I did a speech in college where my premise was the equal rights amendment did not need to be passed because under our present laws we could eventually reach what the amendment desires through the court system. I was just 20 years old and freshly out of the army attending college on my GI bill. 30 years later I feel like a prophet.