baring

bearing. You need to go back to Word.

marriage may not be religious in nature to everyone

Right. And for those people, religion should have no impact on it. If those gay people that want to get married religiously have issues with their churches about it, then they should take it up with their churches.

you can’t fault the church for being upset when a sacred tradition of the church gets redefined as something else

Perhaps not, but it happened over two hundred years ago, and has evolved away from the church ever since, largely without a peep. Too late now. Not to mention that marriage existed long before it was a Christian sacrament.

The Old Testament Commanded the Killing of Homosexuals

Irrelevant tangent, really. No one is proposing that we kill all the gay folks.

Separation of Church and State

Also a fairly irrelevant tangent. Howver, it does say, or at least strongly imply, that no church should surmount another. What if there was a church that promoted gay life as a positive? Would your Church overrule that? If so, why?