Thanks, Mike; excellent article. As for getting government out of marriage, I guess you saw this, from Rational Review News Digest:
4) Oregon county bans all marriage
CNN
"In a new twist in the battle over same-sex marriage roiling the
United States, a county in Oregon has banned all marriages -- gay and
heterosexual -- until the state decides who can and who cannot wed.
The last marriage licenses were handed out in Benton County at 4 p.m.
local time (7:00 p.m. EST) Tuesday." (03/23/04)