I think the point is that by taking marriage away from government, you will not have to fight it out to protect marriage in the first place. In order to protect it by fighting it out in the arena of politics, you will need to win every election, you cannot afford to lose one. One Democrat President, One Democrat Congress, you lose. Why give your enemies the stick to beat you over the head with. I would prefer to take that stick out of their hands.
See post 25, and the government cannot, and will not be ‘out of marriage’.
Marriage will always either be legal, or not legal.
Nobody forces you to seek legal status for your marriage, and they never did in America. Marriage without legal status has always been available for anyone, and still is.
“taking marriage away from government”
I thought the controversy is over whether the Federal Government should make marriage laws, or whether marriage laws should be handled entirely by the individual states.