Why is marriage in "quotation marks" above?

Stop calling it gay marriage and start calling it marriage equality. The basic issue is, do human grownups have a right to enter a legal civil contract (such as marriage) without the goverment looking under their skirts or into their pants, and the answer is, Yes.

What religions do with the *sacrament* part of it is up to the individual churches/mosques/synaguogues/temples/oak groves/grottoes/whatevers, but they should not have a say in a legal contract between 2 adults.

Furthermore, what *y'all* think should have no bearing on *our* contract, and vice-versa. Even less so what you believe about deity, who isn't in the civil contract anyway, only in the sacrament.