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We'll skip a rebuttal of your naive, indeed illiterate, reading of the Old Testament, and merely mention that many of the 3rd and 4th century "fathers" of the Church taught that even sex in marriage was disgusting, if not a perversion in itself. Christianity, like Islam, is a religion of extremist sexual views. For centuries the Church taught that the holy life was a life of sexual segregation and sexual abstinence. Apparently you would not agree. Either way, BFD. Let me give you a brief list of why same-sex unions will happen here, even as they are in other secular democracies. (1) Other peoples' domestic arrangement are simply none of your business, Joe. (2) It is a basic premise of law that civil rights cannot be granted or withheld on such variables as religious belief, color, political membership, sex, language, and by extension, sexual orientation. (3) Marriage is a sacrament. The state is no longer in the business of enforcing sacraments. It's called "separation of church and state." (4) Since you're on a "historical" kick, let me disabuse you further: times change. In another generation, virtually no one will hold your opinion, even as Americans no longer believe that blacks are born to be slaves because of "the curse of Ham." There was a time when whites preached (following the apostle Paul) that "slaves should be obedient to their masters." Like nearly everything else in the bible, that sentiment has no relevance to modern society, which is why such verses are no longer cited. (5) If homosexual couples are violating some basic law of nature, what are we to do, practically speaking? Arrest them and send them to camps? That was the Nazi's solution. Have them declared insane and pack them off to mental institutions? That was the Communist's solution. State sponsered surgury like lobotomy? You need to move beyond the theoretical and tell us what you propose to DO about it, Joe. Stand up like the man you think you are and let us see the Joe behind the pious rhetoric.