You should know that calling for the government to exit the marriage business AND calling for civil unions is right out of the Queer Rights Playbook.
What other liberal agendas do you also endorse?
In many places, VT for example, gays already had civil unions. They weren’t satisfied with that. I think at one point MA offered civil unions, but the gay activist groups weren’t satisfied with that. “The Playbook” has always been legal marriage, so their relationships were not a different category from gov-sanctioned marriage.
It’s a common sense agenda. ANYTHING the government regulates is going to be torn down and bastardized to appease disparate voting blocks.
Unless you fear the government being out of the marriage license business and enacting civil unions is going to turn YOU queer, why would you give a crap about it? It’s going to come anyway barring a societal collapse that weeds out the droves of hedonistic parasites infesting the country.
Conservatives need to accept the fact that unless there is a huge sea change in American society (probably with a lot of crying and screaming) there are a LOT of issues that are just not going to get resolved in our favor. This is one of them that at least the God fearing can still structure themselves around correctly while the associated bureaucratic institution craters upon itself catering to spiritual meaninglessness.