Let's just go ahead and deal with this elephant in the room--

The Supreme Court did not make a new law concerning same sex marriage.  It turns out that all previous laws never specified that the two participants in such a legal document had to be of different genders.

That was only tradition.  A tradition based in religious habit.

Let's compare the two church sacraments of marriage and baptism.  For centuries they were both only church sacrament.  But in the last few hundred years, the governments of the world and ours have weighed in on marriage for inheritance purposes.  Then, about the time income taxes became a thing, the government decided that being married should afford some tax breaks.   At that time, our current civil marriage became associated with the same wording as the church sacrament, and it is still the only place in which the government blatantly violates the separation of Church and State.

Baptism doesn't have any money associated with it, so the government doesn't bother to try and regulate that.

I believe that every church should have the right to marry whomever they want.  Some believe in no divorce at all.  Some believe in polygamy (or did until the government told them that they can't do that).

Churches should baptize however they see fit--immersion, sprinkling, etc.

The point I'm trying to make is that the government does not have any business with an authority over marriage, or baptism.  Maybe we should call the legal document something besides "marriage."

But if the government is going to give the legal and medical advocacy rights to some people who choose to join together, they should give it to any two adults who want to enter into that civil agreement.  That is not the same thing as a church marriage.  These people aren't asking for a sacrament and it's not their fault that the civil, legal process is called the same thing as the church sacrament.

To be a witness to the world, the church should administer their sacraments as judiciously as they feel--

--and then live up to them.

Because as much divorce as we see in the strict, churchy world, they obviously don't believe in the sanctity of marriage.

Peace,
Anthony