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As a gay man who is (finally) legally married in my home state, I must say I have mixed feelings about this. If it is only a matter that the couple will need to get a legal magistrate to sign the marriage certificate, it is just a symbolic act and is only a small imposition on the couple. However, what I don't like is when heterosexual couples forego legal marriage, or even marriage in any form for this reason. That makes the statement that legal marriage is not important and that is exactly the opposite message that the equal marriage movement is trying to make. Denying same sex couples legal marriage is denying them an significant civil and human right and we shouldn't be saying that right is not important.
