Can somebody explain to me how banning gay marriage is "screwing the country up?"
Allowing gay marriage would mean that gay people would have the right to sue any church that can't and won't allow them to be married in a church. The last time I checked, a church can say "No" to whomever they feel like saying "no" to, no matter what the government says about it. This would be a breach of the First Amendment.
The last time I checked, the First Amendment is the most important law in our country.
A civil union, however, held by court officials (Which Bush is for, BTW.) isn't a church-sanctioned marriage. Of course, the leftist echo chambers you call news sources gives a breif mention to that.