Ron and Sumpnz, while it would certainly be a change, I don't see how the government letting any two consenting adults marry each other would affect your tradition. Thus I don't understand how it would be interfering with you. If when you say "leave everybody alone" you mean "don't change tradition", I can understand your use of the busy body term but still disagree with your position.
Ron, I certainly agree that the our usage of the term "rights" has been abused. But I don't understand your point. If you believe their is a right to marry* then shouldn't gays have that right too?
*BTW, I don't believe that we have a right to marry. I think marriage has three aspects: social, religious, and legal. Personally I think the first two are the ones that should matter. The living arrangements between people are their own, and it's up to their church and their community (however broad that may be) to accept or reject the "marriage. Obviously the government controls the legal part. In a perfect world it would not need a legal aspect, but in real life such matters as child custody, insurance, inheritence, etc need to be dealt with, so that will fall to the government. For that reason it only seems fair to deal with same sex unions the same as we do straight ones.