You mean like a satanic church?
You're really putting to much diluted thinking into this. The tradition and rite are historically very clear on the matter. After all my nation is based on JudeoChristian values. I can't speak for your nation.
No..not Satanic Churches, RM. Oddly enough, JudeoChristian churches marry same-sex couples. One that I witnessed was United Church and the other Anglican (Episcopalian).
Most of Canada is based on two specific religions, or rather, two faces of the same religion. From England, we get Anglican Church (Protestant)..and from the French side, Roman Catholic.
Whether you nation is based on JC values is debateable..and is still going on here. The point is moot. There are many JC values that are patently ignored by your gvt and people daily, whilst one line in the Bible seems sufficient to ban homosexuality in men, and another is interpreted as a ban on same-sex marriage.
There is a wall between religion and government. Break it at your own peril. On the other side of this wall is Theocracy...fascism in disguise.
You are proving the old adage: "A little knowledge is dangerous."
These values in regards to the Rite of Marriage are time tested and proven to be the best scenio for the future propagation of the species.
Unfortunately, monogamous relationship modern marriage is a social construct. Biblical marriage allows for harems and multiple wives, mistresses etc...
Whether it's the best scenario is also debatable. It's the most accepted scenario, granted.
You have the benefit of living at time where knowledge is exploding like no other time in history. You have a very limited amount of actual knowledge as we are at the dawn understanding the nature of the world. -- Yet you hold what you know as the absolute final truth. -- Even worse you take this very limited information and make wild theories and then proclaim them better than the traditions that have naturally developed over the last 2.5 million years.
Let me put in a frame of mind you might understand better. -- In the last ~2000 years we discovered knowledge that hydrocarbons can produce light, heat and even make cars move, jets fly and create fantastic consumer goods. We now know this naturally occurring set of chemicals pollute our biological world and does some degree of damage. This damage has increased and now has polluted enough to where we've taken notice. You and I both believe that we need to make some changes, that we need to stop using the limited knowledge we have on fossil fuels to avoid making more ways to pollute with it.
Much is the same with our very limited and more complex knowledge of human development. We are no where close to understanding human development. Your thinking is overly polluted with theroies and made up political fodder that are presented to you in a fashion that appears to make sense on the surface. Like the notion we can power our world with fossil fuel forever without consequences.
I prefer debate, trial and error...science is not about concensus, nor should it be about bully-pulpits. The current debate re: same-sex marriage is not about biology. Both sides of the equation like to use biology, sociology, psychology etc as tools in the debate, but when it's boiled down to it's essential core..it's a theological debate. One side sees homosexuality as a sin..the other does not. It's Theists v. deists+athiests
In contrast, traditions that have evolved over thousands of years are based on real observation and real consequence. They are proven. You seem to believe that your very limited pool of information are solid facts, they are not. They are over-thought rationalizations from people who trying to justify a behavior. Thought pollution if you will.
Even with all the scientific advance we have: The world is a dangerous place, it is an unfair place and it is a very unforgiving place. The future of the species and the survival of my nations are important to me. I have far more faith in the time tested traditions than I do in your over thought theories.
Don't mistake the time you live in as something changes the nature of the way the world works. You are not a god.
I'm afraid that you are assuming that current traditions resemble past traditions..and that this should be considered a good thing. Morals, mores, laws and traditions are far more fluid than you care to imagine.
Homosexuality exists. It is a biological trait. It exists as a very small percentage of the overall population. Certainly not in sufficient numbers to present as a threat to the survival of the human race, or of your nations.
There are far greater threats to the human race and far more numerous. As you said, nature is neither kind, fair, nor forgiving. Same-sex marriage is being given far too much emphasis considering it's overall impact. It's a bone...toss it to the homosexuals and lets get on to more pressing and important matters, eh.
