If Marriage is Private?

Marriages loses its shape and purpose by being transformed into an individual freedom.  If it is just a private and personal decision the logic leads not to gay marriage, but to the abolition of marriage as a legal status.

Maggie Gallagher, “Why Libertarians Should Oppose Same-Sex Marriage,” cited by Chelsen Vicari, “Distortion: How the New Christian Left is Twisting the Gospel & Damaging the Faith, p.65