gay marrige is WRONG

I do not expect to lay out all the facts of my argument in this section, but I will point out the obvious: Love makes marriage, and love is essential to a healthy, happy, and productive marriage. Secondly; The history of Christianity is two thousand years long, and slightly longer if we include Judaism in the history of Christianity. Regardless; this is a relatively short period within the human experience confined to a very small area of the earth. Anthropologically there have been many forms of marriage in societies that were not as destructive, self destructive and as hell bent on suicide as our own. If we look at these forms of relationship as reflecting our biological needs then they are almost all naturally dioecious, meaning essentially- one man and one woman. But many of these social arrangements broke our one on one mold completely. These societies did not fail, but were healthy when discovered by modern Europeans. In addition, we have reports of Native American societies of homosexual marriages that were common enough to be accepted by the natives themselves. It was not homosexuality that destroyed these societies. At a very early age it was the children themselves who would reveal their own sexuality in their choice of toys. For the natives and for all primitive peoples, society was that one place on earth where they might consider themselves Free. Outside of society everyone was constrained by the need to reveal their own kind in a positive and honorable light. Today, youth can only be free outside of ones community. In the past, one could only be free within society. In the philosophy and principal of the individuality, ones community looses all of its power. If Gay people are demanding Gay marriage it is on the basis of Individual rights. Upon what basis is their claim of their equal civil rights denied? Today it is denied on the basis of a foreign culture and religion. We do not follow the law of Moses. We certainly do not prosecute sin as if crime. Even in the churches, people rather forgive and forget than make an issue. They might consider the argument that society has a different aim than religion. While religions can keep their homogeneity by exclusion of those it does not like, society cannot exclude except in the case of crime. If we say that in the case of heterosexual marriage that fidelity is the goal in relationships, and promiscuity is resisted, is this not a worthy goal for homosexuals? What is the alternative; because as is true of all of us, sexually transmitted disease is a life altering and life shortening danger. What we see clearly in the attempt of the religious to deny the right of marriage to homosexuals. This is the claim of religious privilege. To deny equal rights for an otherwise equal individual is a privilege rather than a right that makes those with the privilege more than equal to all others in society. The dynamic here is: The homosexual asking only for equality while the privileged deny equality on the basis of their privilege. Again; Marriage lessen the danger of infidelity, so Society on that basis alone should grant the right, but the churches, refuse that right on the basis of privilege. To look at marriage through the lens of the Bible is to see a greatly varied picture with incest defended and even polygamy. We can excuse them not wanting Homosexuality. Survival was often a breeding game in which those societies with the most bodies to lose could win, and bodies meant breeding. No one who was not fully a man could become members of Jewish society, and any slave who would not be circumcised, and Eunice were simply traded away. But we do not live in that fashion still, and society has progressed to the point where over breeding is more often the problem. So on the basis of Anthropology which has shown many different forms of marriage, On the basis of general social health, On the basis of the power of society to decide reasonably where its best interest lies, and on the basis of religions that do not follow their law or the customs they claim to support, but support only what they feel natural; I support GL marriage for GL people.