[Alcoremortis]

I just think the government should just keep its nose out of who marries who. It's hardly a matter of national security. It's the imposition of a Christian doctrine on a multireligious society. And not all of those religions ban gay marriage in their doctrines. It's frankly ridiculous in such a diverse society that we let one doctrine of one religion take precedence over all the others and then claim it to be the "real" American way. No. The real American way is separation of church and state. Churches can individually ban whatever marriages they like, I really don't care, and the government shouldn't force them to accept marriages that go against their belief system. But the government shouldn't ban secular marriages on the basis of a religious doctrine that not everyone follows.