Quote Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat View Post
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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The Speech of Aristophanes
PLATO

From the Symposium, by Plato, translated by Alexander Nehamas and Paul Woodruff, 1989
I am not completely unknowlegdable about all that crap, but, even in Greece marriage was between a man and a woman. You seem to be so very fond of institutionalised things, why do you think the concept of marriage in every culture is between a man and a woman. Baby's, reproduction.