"Marriage" should be irrelevant in the governmental context. It is an act of personal commitment. Legal rights associated with partnership should be a simple matter of registering that partnership with an appropriate governmental entity, with appropriate attestation to confirm intent, and all rights and privileges related to that partnership should flow from that act.
I don't gotta go to a church or a justice of the peace to form a corporation or dissolve one. Why do I gotta do it to make someone my legal heir?
Just plain silly.
Now, anyone who wants to have the marriage ceremony for spiritual or other extra-legal reasons should be able to have one performed. But the government should get out of this business and stay out.
