“In their spot, facing criminal action, I guess I could marry them. It would be a brief ceremony. No particular words are required as far as I know. When they came to me, I’d ask to see their marriage license and perhaps their IDs. Then I’d say, “You’re married,” and sign the paperwork.”
Then you’d be endorsing and supporting a falsehood (by Biblical standards, they are NOT married). That’s why the folks under attack won’t go through with the hypocritical pretense only to save their business.
Joy, I see the marriage ceremony as both a religious ceremony and a civil one. I don’t believe a magistrate performs (or ought to) a religious ceremony. My objection is purely regarding the civil ceremony and the so-called marriage of people of the same gender. So, we differ there a bit.
I agree that it is an impossibility for two people of the same gender to be married in God’s eyes (according to my faith).