Between the two of us, I'm not the one using logic by assertion. Nor am I insisting on the definition of a word. We've already been over this, but marriage is not a word, it is a thing, and it has certain limits that cannot be exceeded, and still be that thing. As an example, let's go back to fatherhood. If my biological father were a bad, abusive person, who left when I was ten; he would still be, in some way, my father. If another man raised me, he might be considered a father, as well, in another sense. But that doesn't mean I can legally claim anyone off the street as my father, in a legal sense. Someone you call your father, informally, may qualify by a different set of characteristics. A father has certain characteristics that must be met, or no one's going to take you seriously, when you say he's a father. All I'm telling you is that a same-sex couple, no matter how much they love one another, or how committed, or how much we may approve of their situation, is ever going to be a marriage. Not because anyone disapproves of them, but because that's not what marriage is. The world can disagree, but they'll just be wrong.
Exactly why the government need not be involved.
My father is my father because of his actions, not biology, and there were plenty of legal option that could have been taken to make him such.
A husband is a husband due to his actions, not the gender of his partner.
A wife is a wife due to her actions, not the gender of her partner.
And I agree, government shouldn't be involved at all. You don't need government to validate your marriage anymore than anyone elses, but since it does, accept that there is a large portion of the population that thinks "marriage" is something the LBGT can and should have, because they don't define that word or instatution the same way you do.
Move beyond your personal feelings on the subject and be the bigger man. Accept that the fact that others beliving diffrently does not invalidate your opinion and accept the validity that they have the right to redefine the word "marriage" if they want to.
It's no skin off your back if they do. It doesn't diminish your marriage. If you think it does, well, you might want to rethink your own marriage.
and you never addressed the fact that once "Christian" meant Catholic and nothing else.