It will survive this change too. 2. No-fault divorce is relevant. See below. 3. The Roman Catholic Church (tied with Greek Orthodox for the honor of being the oldest surviving offshoot of the Pauline church) has prohibited divorce among its members since the Council of Nicaea. When no-fault divorce was legalized, other churches started marrying divorced people -- but the Catholic Church still does not allow it. The RCC suffers no legal penalties for their stance on divorce. If gay marriage is legalized, then those particular denominations, Christian and otherwise, that accept gay marriage as legitimate will be able to perform same-sex weddings that are backed up by the law. (Don't kid yourself -- ministers, priests, and rabbis of all sorts are already performing same-sex wedding ceremonies nationwide. They just can't pronounce such couples legally married in states where same-sex marriage is outlawed.) Those churches that oppose same-sex marriage will not have to change a single thing that they are doing. This is because legalizing gay marriage only affects CIVIL marriage (i.e., getting a marriage certificate notarized and approved by a justice or registered clergy) and its legal benefits, not religious wedding ceremonies. Churches can recognize or not recognize whatever marriages they want to. Drew I should have clarified Genesis by prefacing it with "before the fall." You never addressed the NT, conceding that point to me. If your question is why the RCC prohibits no-fault divorcees to remarry while other Churches allow it, that is an interesting question. Owen