When I debated this question on a recent ballot initiative, my arguments came down to those unions that can be provided by the state versus those marriages that are a covenant with God.

I’m also a strict Constitutionalist following the First Amendment “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof” in conjunction with Amendment X “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.” Therefore, I believe the covenant of marriage belongs to the individual states and is not the business of the federal government.