Marriage predates Christianity. What Christians consider an ancient, inherently Christian tradition is in fact much older.
Not only that. This Christian 'tradition' has changed throughout the centuries, and throughout different places. Do not mistake a few centuries-old, northwest European practise for a timeless intitution.
Homosexuality in ancient Greece, as described by the Towering Giant of Western philosophy, Plato. For Plato, as was the custom in Greece, male homosexuality was the most manly, most revered form of love:
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