Gay marriage is hypocrisy!

in the first place neither the thread starter nor anyone else "KNOWS what god wants" for anyone other then themselves, if even that.

for another, all merrage is in a sense hypocracy.

granted there are species in nature that are instinctualy monagamous.
our own just doesn't happen to be one of them.

merrage is however, a formalization of commitment, to, if nothing else, gratify one another's codependence. it only becomes signifigant when government gets into the act, which, in my oppinion, it has no bussiness doing in the first place.

nor does any belief not voluntarily subscribed to by all of the participants to an emotional commitment.

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Not entirely. Marriage was a religious institution for thousands of years before it was regulated by government agencies. True, you may have been taxed differently 1000 years ago if you were married, but the controls were based on class, not gender.

I would also like to point out that, for the most part, monogamous marriage and monogamy as a whole are Christian tenets, and it seems that they are the ones kicking up the most dust here. Jews tend not to have issue with this, Muslims don't, Pagans, etc etc etc. So it's not that I believe that marriage is a Christian institution so much as Christians believe that marriage belongs to them. Specifically the right wing fundies, but some of the lesser Christians, who may or may not spend an eternity in hell no matter what they believe.

But hey, it's their religion, let them believe what they want. Just don't legislate others.

PS- Great discussion, people.

 

Yes I have, he told me through the bible.

 

God is larger and more powerful then a book, right? I though God was everywhere, try to feel the love rather than take the hate out of a book. The Bible is not the end or even the start of God.
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I totally agree. I think that some people don't consider seriously enought that the bible WAS written by human beings, beings with encouragement from God, but humans nonetheless. I think that actual spirituality is a much better source for information about what God "wants" you to do than the Bible is. I think that the whole gay thing in the bible has nothing to do with God at all, but thatit was the humans who wrote it.