People should be free to marry whomever they want, be it gay marriage or straight marriage.

Libertarians in general support legislation to rewrite state marriage laws to allow gays to marry.

But I see this issue differently.

I believe government has no business sticking its nose into our private lives. What one person wants to do with his or her life should be left to that individual, and not usurped by the masses.

Therefore, there should be no definition of marriage. Government should only recognize marriage for legal purposes, such as custody of children, estate planning, medical directive, et al.

We should not support legislation that specifically allows gays to marry, and nor should we support legislation that specifically forbids gays to marry. There should be no legislation that steps into the personal realm.

Furthermore, Marriage itself is a religious institution. That's where marriage comes from. But because this religious institution has become so engrained into the American culture, people forget that it is a religious institution.

State governments already do recognize civil unions, which is effectively the same thing as marriage, but doesn't have the word "marriage" in it. For whatever reasons, gays have never been happy with civil unions, and instead want the full religious version that straight couples obtain.

Ultimately, government should abolish marriage, and instead only recognize civil unions. Let marriage continue at a personal level, and let couples continue to have marriage ceremonies in their own way, but let government see them all as civil unions.