Government, like cancer, has a “vested interest” in growing and infiltrating its surroundings.
Marriage in the US worked for over 200 years. We did not become a totalitarian nanny state ruled by religious fanatics and idealogues simply because we upheld traditonal marriage in our laws and courts.
So for anyone to look at marriage and argue that the government has no place in sanctioning it is simply ignorant of history.
Now. If you wanna know WHY tradional marriage is nearly dead in our government today, then start with LBJ and his Great Society. Liberals and those who argue against marriage in our laws and in our courts are the ones to blame.
Not conservatives.