I think that people should be entitled to spend the rest of their lives with someone who they truly love. Marriage is something that should be shared between two people and that shouldn't be defined by gender @mattclarke
Politicians are there just to get to a higher status. They will jump onto anything 'trendy' or popular so they can get more power and have little disregard for their voters.
If anything they politician most likely won't fulfil your wishes and backstab you and all you can do is nothing. You are the one who fed this beast too much for their own good.
Government sanctioned marriage is not required to do this. Furthermore it is not necessary that the rest of the population provide validation for this; they only need to acknowledge that you can do it if you choose to. Lastly the goal of making this an entitlement is the problem. What we are saying is that we need this action to be legislated by the government for it to have meaning (scary).
I think that is only scratching the surface, and there is a much deeper and darker purpose to political & governance system. Some conspiracies are not theories.
People think they're using politicians, when it's clearly the other way around.