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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Marriage is and has always been an uneasy hybrid between civil and canon law. The fact that Christians recognize it as a sacrament (Catholic) or as sacramental (mainline Protestant) gives them some feeling of ownership over the civil aspect.
As for whether God hates gays, I'd like to say I know he doesn't. But it's mostly incontrovertable that the people writing the books we now call scripture pretty much hated homosexual activity, as they reserved their strongest language for it. Moderns who think those books are something more significant than historical records are tied up in knots about this. The Episcopal Church is this very day being split in two over the calling of a gay bishop, and they have some of the most sophisticated tools to excuse themselves from troubling scripture points.
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you kept going to Cathecism after confirmation, didn't you?
