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And since the state has been involved for a long time, that means it should be open to anyone. Just as it's been open to others such as atheists. They weren't doing it for religious purposes. Nor were kings and queens when they would marry their children to unite kingdoms. Or people who basically married their children in exchange for cattle.

My point isn't to get the state out of marriage since at this point it is more so a legal document and something that couples do out of love for each other. But the idea that it's a religious thing is ridiculous. Not to mention its hardly an argument since that means that gay people have even more rights to get married, since some church's, including Christian ones, will do it. If anything the idea that being gay is a sin has been slowly falling out of Christianity in the same way that interracial marriages were something many Christians were against at one point. So the idea that it's somehow an argument against same sex marriage is absolutely false, and would only open the doors even more. It doesn't even have to be religious. Being married is just being married.

"But some church's wouldn't count it!" Funny. I was raised Mormon. According to them most straight marriages don't count either since they weren't don't in a Mormon temple. I don't see others complaining that their church doesn't recognize it.

Not only was this just moving the goal post, but it also is one that has been discussed many times and has always been torn apart.

Marriage refers to two things - (1) a legal contract between two people, mediated by the state, and (2) societal and/or religious acceptance of two people as a married couple. Nowadays, in most parts of the world, only the first matters for most purposes. So the state should recognise all marriages, but religions and society are free to have their own conditions as long as they do not harass people they don't like.