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Originally Posted by mykalberta
The second thing that might be conscrewed as hate is the religious defenition of marriage - the bible was the first linguistic text to associate the word marriage as defined as the union of a man and woman before god.
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I'm curious to know where the bible defines marriage in those terms (particularly, the 'before god' part). For the first 500 years or so of the church's existance, the church did not even perform marriages, and only in about 1200 AD did the Catholic Church define marriage as a sacred institution of the church. And Martin Luther later declared that marriage was a worldly thing that belongs to the world of government.
Maybe there is a passage in the bible that specifically states that marriage is between man and woman before god... I won't pretend that my knowledge of scripture is anywhere close to yours. But if the bible does state such, why did so many important Christian thinkers not see it that way?