Philo, you haven't answered any of my questions ... sigh.

Thanks MrGumby, it's nice to read the comments of reason and humanity,
such as you and RObert's contributions to this thread.
It makes me rejoice that not everyone in the world has gone mad :

The celebration of marriage has been around ever since humanity has been civilized. The Mesopotamians and following the Jews kept family genialities’ and their histories for posterity.

The State has not been involved in registering the union for more than 2 to 3 thousand years. The Roman Empire kept census of its citizens and the Roman Church become involved in keeping records for the Roman State. Marriage has never been merely a social declaration. It has always been a physical union. Homosexual acts has never been seen by any State as marriage - because it ain’t.

The homosexual lobby wish to reduce the term marriage to merely mean a public declaration of love between two persons of the same gender.

They can have a register or coming out ceremony. Heterosexuals do not need a coming out ceremony because they do not have anything to hide about a perfectly natural and designed biological event.