.Melancholic.Serenade. I sort of agree with you, but that the same time you can't take a book that was written so long ago so seriously and literally. The same part of the bible that says if man lies with another man it is an abomination says that if a woman is not a virgin on her wedding day she should be brought to her fathers house and be stoned to death. We certainly don't take that seriously, do we?
And also, it does not say anywhere that you have to be wed in a church. &There are many religions other than the catholic religion, and there are religions that do accept homosecuality. So we cannot base this whole debate on only the catholic church.
Personally, if gay marriage was legal I may or may not get married. If two people were truly in love and cared for one another than they wouldn't need a huge party for it, and they wouldn't need a paper making it officail.
Like I said, there is nothing in the Bible about gay marriage specifically. It's all based on what people assume, and I'm sure you know about what happens when you assume.
As for the stoning thing, The Old Testament rules stand - punishments do not. That's why Christ died.
For as long as religion holds on to archaic ideology, gay people can't get married. Like I said about my dad and step-mother signing a piece of paper and that's all. A Priest would not marry them, so it had be done by a Justice of the Peace or some shit like that. I'm not a fan of it, but that's the way the cookie crumbles. I think what should be worked on is upgrading Civil Unions and changing some people though process when it comes to what they
think God wants.
A civil union may not be too exciting, but it doesn't change the fact that you are married or whatever they call it in a civil union.