text: I have no problem with the Church's concern for reality  if the Church confines that concern to it's own reality.  The gay marriage issue was a secular issue, not a religious issue.  The reality for gays is they did not enjoy the same secular advantages in benefits and tax structure that married straights did.  Even if a gay or lesbian couple was raising children, and many of these couples were raising their own biological children, they could not qualify for many benefits to help raise that child.  This was a secular issue, not a religious issue.  
  
  I would hope you wouldn't have backed a political campaign to support the religiously defined 'reality' of the Southern Baptist Convention when it was using the bible to politically institute Jim Crow laws. But once you step down the road of insisting a religious reality should trump secular reality I don't see how you can avoid supporting another religion using the same rationale unless....you advocate for a Catholic theocracy.