It's terrible if it was for being offensive. What it should have been about was a lack of elegance and logic. Marriage should be a legal/tax/etc contract between 2 or more consenting entities that can legally enter into contracts. Anything else is a hack, and en engineer should know better.

(There's also the minor issue of running an org with policies directly against your own. While not technically a blocking issue, one must wonder about a person's commitment to something when they are actively against it in their personal life.)