If sodomites wish to commit themselves exclusively to another, I say that is much more healthy than being promiscuous.
If a state wants to recognize a contract between two individual of the same sex to form a sort of partnership, I say that's a basic function of government.
ON THE OTHER HAND
I believe marriage is a sacred religious right, and that calling a civil contract between two people of the same sex a marriage is like calling a bath a baptism! And I also believe this is a STATE issue, to be decided by the states.
States have no more legitimate authority to decide against what God decided at the beginning of the creation than the federal courts do.
Folks need to get over this silly notion and get back to the founders' natural law understanding of how the world works and what government is obligated to do.
Marriage is what marriage is, in the same way that gravity is what gravity is.
If government at any level "decides" that up is down and down is up, are you going to jump over an eighty foot cliff, and take the entire country, or entire states, over the cliff with you?