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Its no different than typical contract law, and since its a common practice, it would be pretty simple to adopt.
Let the government create a designation, like a benefactor, and replace all law references to "spouce, partner, marriage" etc with designated benefactor. Now all citizenry can choose 1 person, whomever they want, to get those special protections and privileges. It eliminates the state's involvement with any type of marriage, and turns it all into basic contracts.
If the state wants to regulate those contracts, by being the keeper of the records, so be it, but its a much better system than what we have today.
And it would still fail to establish a legal kinship that is established through legally recognized marriages. Something that is otherwise established through birth records (for the most part, some is adoption records or now DNA tests) for other legally recognized relations.
The people want marriage. You might not. Just as some do not think there should be a standing military or others do not believe that we should have public services, such as a police force, or EMTs, or firefighters, or public schools. But the majority, vast majority of citizens want those things, including marriages. So unless that changes to where the majority wants the government out of marriage, then it isn't going to happen because there is no legal standing to honestly challenge marriage as a legal entity itself within US laws.