PseudoTrek said:So was God. So, what has that to do with it?
Everything and nothing, depends where you sit. I think most people realize religion is an invention to help us deal with our own mortality rather than a factual entity. When this invention is used to justify unjustifiable things, IE war, terrorism, racism, murder etc, it becomes offensive. In my country we have a bill before Parliament called "Civil Union" which is being strongly opposed by Church's on the grounds that homosexuality is against god and/or marriage is a "Union between a man and a woman before god"....so back to what my post has to do with it....if marriage was about before the bible, it can not be claimed to be a religious based union, just one that religion has hijacked and called its own, there for the argument is void.