But I believe it would have been better if a new category of union had been created by Congress that had all the rights of marriage but was only civil in nature and not called marriage. This union could later be blessed as marriage by any religion willing to do so. Kim Davis could in good conscience sign these licenses for civil unions that are not marriage.
I don't object to the principle. But, in order to do this, you would have to change thousands of laws so as to include these civil unions. I'm pretty sure that the conservatives would be attempting to block those changes.
But why is this even needed? Marriage is already a civil union. That's why the state issues marriage licenses. The Churches already use their own special terminology of "holy matrimony" for the cases that they endorse. Nobody is attempting tell the Churches how they should define "holy matrimony".
Fundamentalism - the anti-American, anti-Christian branch of American Christianity