“If the government does not hand out goodies based on marital status who cares?”
These people will present themselves as married and our children and generations that follow will think nothing of a couple of married lesbians or gays. It then becomes normal.
Oh so then instead we let the government define who can and cannot be married which BTW includes gay marriage right now and THAT decides what is kosher?
Just because someone presents themselves as married does not make it so. It takes two or more people to validate a social convention HOWEVER when the government stamps it Official all contrary Social Convention is invalidated (and so is your argument!) and it becomes LAW! And once you give the government power over such it can quickly be corrupted!
But if parents teach their children that two men or women cannot be married in the eyes of God, isn’t that likely to carry more weight than what two people in any relationship call themselves? Gay or lesbian couples can say that they are a married couple to their hearts’ content, but if the government does not provide official sanction to any marriage people will regard those relationships in whatever way they choose.