By my beliefs, I do not support gay marriage as it instiutionalizes a sinful lifestyle. However, I don't feel it should be expressly outlawed by secular governments unless that government can find a valid, secular reason to outlaw it. (SPOILER: They can't... so please stop trying.)
So long as a government is secular in structure and statute it has no business passing laws based on religious principle. Said government also has absolutely no right to force churches to sanctify marriages contrary to their beliefs based on the same "separation of church and state" concept.
Therefore, if a secular goverment finds no issue with marrying gay people to each other, let it knock itself out. There are secular heterosexual mariages, so secular homosexual marriages shouldn't be too much of a big deal.
However, if a gay couple should ask an officer of a church to perform a wedding ceremony and that officer refuses on religious principal, it ends there. No lawsuits, no picketing, no glitterbombs... just go to the flippin' Mayor's office. It's just as legal from the Mayor as it is from a priest or pastor, and legal is all you're going to get.
For a house of the Lord to sanctify a gay marriage would necessitate the sanctification of sin. That flat-out can't happen. No officer of the Lord can ratify what God Himself rebukes. You may as well tell B'nai Brith that they're on the hook to host a BLT-eating contest.
Earthly government is just that... and that's where its authority ends.
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