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This is one of those "not all mammals are monkeys, but all monkeys are mammals" kind of statements. In this case it would be, "Not all libertarians call for the removal of government from marriage, but only libertarians call for the removal of government from marriage."
I just googled "remove government from marriage site:debatepolitics.com" (without quotation marks) because DP's own search engine sucks, and found this thread right away. It's highly representative of my experiences with libertarians and discussions on removing government from marriage, especially as it pertains to ssm.
Feel free to use that search term up there and hop from thread to thread. It's very consistent.
http://www.debatepolitics.com/general-political-discussion/93008-why-marriage-recognized-government-anyway-2.html
If you would like to cherrypick random threads from a political debate website to back your claim that Libertarians are antipathic towards gay marriage, fine.
Here's a thread started by a conservative that shows three Libertarians and myself, another Libertarian, through "likes" (Clax, brothern, criticalthought) defending the institution of marriage against only one libertarian (gaius, who actually is a known supporter of gay marriage) and an anarchist/voluntaryist/ancap/whatever the hell he is today (Henrin).
http://www.debatepolitics.com/sex-and-sexuality/203892-get-government-out-marriage.html
Consistent?