The bottom line remains, you said you would take someone seriously when they took Jesus seriously. Mike Pence comes the closest of the major political figures out there today who does that, and you don't take him seriously. Ergo, you're not being honest.
Except that he doesn't. He just uses "Jesus" as an excuse for his homophobia and misogyny. the whole part about treating people decently, the part that almost makes the Jesus Superstition redeemable, he's totally lost on that point.
Face reality, you wouldn't take Jesus Himself seriously because He believes marriage is between a man and a woman, not between two men or two women.
Did he? Hey, check out what the New Testament says about marriage.
It is good for a man not to touch a woman. Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
1 Corinthians 7:1-2
For I would that all men were even as I myself.... I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
1 Corinthians 7:7-9
Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed.
Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife. 1 Corinthians 7:27
But this I say, brethren,
the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none. --
1 Corinthians 7:29
Jesus wasn't encouraging his followers to get married.