If you are against gay marriage, explain why without mentioning religion

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Jumpin said:

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Andrespetmonkey said:

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I personally don't care

Most arguments are religious based. The only one that I can think of is that many people fear things they can't understand, and since the vast majority of humans are straight.....ya. Also homosexuality hasn't been widely documented, let alone supported until the last 60 years or so. It'll take time to break the mindset humans have had since our dawn as a civilized race.

Historically homosexuality was pretty much accepted and well-documented in quite a few western cultures... like ancient Rome or Greece.

Then I guess it died down when Christianity became the official religion of the Roman empire.

Anti-homosexuality didn't become associated with Christianity until the 20th century homosexuality became a punishable offense in the Roman Empire in 29 BC under Octavian, hundreds of years before the Empire was Christianized. The Greco-Roman historian Plutarch also writes homosexuality as the lowest kind of vice. The Roman Empire was less liberal towards homosexuality than current society, they deemed the act as immoral on the basis that they saw it as an unnatural act. Homosexuality was actually considered an insult to the Romans, it was one of the most common forms of political slander along with incest, drunkenness, greed, and stupidity.

For the record, not all Christian churches are against homosexuality, some even have openly gay ministers, and hold gay marriage ceremonies; and it's about the only religion in the world to do so. The Christian world is a diverse one and hardly unified in their belief systems, even under the same Church - which is why you'll find liberal minded Catholics and conservative minded ones, even among the congregatio (The reason why Catholicism is a significant example is because the network of its order is one of the strictest and most rigid in the Christian world. Most chirches are much less unified.).

Yet the emperors Nero and Eleogabalus were married to men after this point in public ceremonies. Nero was married to two men in two different ceremonies.