Ironically enough the early Church sanctioned same sex marriages. It was considered normal until about 1100 or 1200 AD.
http://www.libchrist.com/other/homosexual/gaymarriagerite.html http://www.colfaxrecord.com/detail/91429.html So you could consider that the religious arguments are somewhat specious. I suspect that the real reason for many people's objections are more psychological than religious. In fact I'd also say that the most ardent objectors to gay have more than a a few issues regarding their own sexuality. While I'm no supporter of Freud (I usually call him Fraud), I think he was very accurate about how some use projection in cases like this. larry >> Should be, legally incorporated civil union, >> and religiously married. > >I believe that many of the people who are against gay "marriage" are against >it in religious terms. Since the middle ages, marriage in most Christian >realms was seen as a religious matter (never mind that marriage as an >institution pre-dates any of the current major religions). They see >homosexuality as wrong or immoral, so for a couple of that standing to come >in and say they want right to "marry" is equivalent to an assult on the >religion itself. Marriage in the present is more about the legal and civil >benefits and consequences, so allowing and giving the same rights to "civil >unions" isn't an unfair compromise, in my opinion. I'm not a religious >person, so I personally don't care what it's called. I'd like to see the >same rights and benefits extended to everyone who wants to get together >(heterosexuals, homosexuals, polyamorous groups, whatever) regardless of >what it's ultimately called by the state. > > >-Justin ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:294658 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
