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Originally Posted by troutman
This may be true in certain times and places, but it has never been universally true. Gay marriage was permitted in ancient Greece. Polygamy is permitted in many places.
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Quoted since people seem to miss this point in the debate.
I mean isn't this debate mainly just religious people trying to keep gay culture, gay people and now this massive threat of gay marriage at bay?
We know that traditionally a great number of religious leaders even in the modern day US have suggested capital punishment for gays.
If people could open up to the fact marriage is a word, a word that has evolved and has had many different meanings to many different peoples and cultures.
That this debate is not about the term marriage, but the fact religious people by their beliefs think gays shouldn't be gay, and that its wrong to be gay and it angers their god.
Its like the debate over the word is the 'nice' way to fight against Gays gaining any further rights or more importantly acceptance into the mainstream culture. Since a great deal of the religious crowd are fearful of gay people, their culture, and influence on society.
It doesn't take much imagination to see parallels to other groups singled out for various reasons throughout history, this debate just hides its true obvious reasons behind semantics.