I've come across people who believed that the state should not be involved in marriage. They viewed extending marriage to gay couples as just making a bad situation worse, by getting the state involved in even more relationships.
Yes, he has.
Do you have a religious reason for putting words in my mouth on hacker news? That would explain things about as well as your false assertion about me!
To save anyone interested in what I've written some site-specific searching, start here and follow the links I left in this comment:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13411986
Searching for coldpie and my name will return lots of tediously similar comments from him inveighing against me based on ill will and little else. I'll spare you all those search results :-|.