Gay Marriage / Gay Rights

[Donovan]

@Dick is that the same 2,000 year old tradition where marriage was a purchase of woman as property from the father of the woman? Or the 2,000 year old tradition that dictated men could purchase more than one wife as a show of wealth? Or the one that said any divorce was a sin and any sex after divorce was adultery? The tradition where the woman cost about the same as a couple of goats? Or the one where men could divorce a woman at any time for any reason because she was considered chattel? Or maybe it was the rules and traditions set down about procreation and following god's will to multiply, set down by Paul and Jesus, a couple of confirmed bachelors who according to canon had neither wives nor children?

The one consistent and obvious fact that jumps right out at the audience is that when dealing with Marriage you only mention men and women.

I will give you some time now to re evaluate your own true view of Marriage and then you can apologise, I will accept it and of course rub your electrolysis denuded face in it every chance I get.

That's because I limited the response strictly to the misogynistic , penis-centric views of the Xtian church in its infancy, and didn't mention the even older traditions practiced in the Greek and Roman cultures where marriage was a statement of ownership, sexual penetration was a form of dominance, and sexual activity between men was not only accepted but demanded as a form of proving one's masculinity.

I mean, as long as we're adhering to ancient traditions, right? Not my cup of tea, generally speaking, I prefer to live in the modern world. You can go research some of the Greek and Roman practices I refer to and try them out at your little Pirate Promenade. I'm sure all the fellas from work will be up for it.