The issue here is the government's view of marriage and its benefits--not one of forcing any religion to accept gay marriage. A church wedding does not say whether or not you can get insurance benefits, or have medical visitations or make medical decisions or file joint tax returns or inheritance rights. All marriages are civil unions, because the government recognizes them. Any couple who is willing to join in a legal relationship (commonly called a marriage) should be allowed to and be recognized by the government. However, whether that union or marriage is blessed by any church would the the decision of the church, but would make the union or marriage no less legal.
If I am not mistaken, a large number of our local population is Catholic. If divorced, can you remarry in the Church or do you use a Justice of the Peace? If not married in the Church because you violate the Church's Christian principles does that mean you are not legally married???? But even so, the government recognizes it as a legal marriage with all the benefits the state provides for that relationship.
Now as far as Chick-Fil-A and their stand, that is absolutely within their Constitutional right (and we here are for the Constitution!) to speak their mind, but they must be prepared for whatever the public reaction may be--both good or bad.
This is my stance as well.
I was raised Catholic. My father is my mother's second husband and she was married in church the first time around. There's nothing religious about a marriage performed by a justice of the peace. You get married in a court house and you're lawfully married. As far as the Church was concerned my parents weren't married until 20 years later she got an annulment and the were remarried by our Deacon.
Legally recognized marriage has no baring on anyone's religious freedom. If you want your church marriage recognized as legal, then good news! It is. No one is saying that your church has to marry a gay couple anymore than they'd have to marry a couple of Atheist, Muslims, or even Protestants.
They just want a simple route to having a legally recognized relationship equal to a heterosexual couple. As easy to enter into and granting the same rights to inheritance, power of attorney, benefits, and finances as heterosexual marriages have now.