Marriage is not a religious institution, it was merely a way to guarantee exclusive sexual access to a woman. Women were treated as property and marrying off a daughter was like trading cattle. There is nothing sacred in the institution of marriage, nothing. Additionally, Jesus has never spoken out against homosexuality and he never condoned any form of discrimination. Opposing gay marriage is morally reprehensible and there is no legitimate argument to be made against it. Furthermore, Popes from the past have done little other than incite wars and crusades, oppose scientific advancement, allow slavery and discrimination (both sexual and racial), condone horrific torture and above all else, ignore the teachings of Christ. They are not Christian, they are deceivers and if you believe in Hell then they are the path to eternal damnation.

wow you are very high-strung with your opinion on Catholicism.. you must of just read about the bad stuff Catholics has done for humanity..  and nothing more... its like Catholicism has done nothing but bad stuff..  lol

Here is one example what Jesus said: 

Matthew 19:4-6

⁴ And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made^[a] them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’^{[b] 5} and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?^{[c] 6} So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.”

now that you have read that.. and you know what he said... your choice to believe his words or your own opinion.

I wont fight with you about it.. your entitled to you're opinon and have free will.

Fascist and totalitarian governments have done good things as well but that does not excuse them of their crimes against humanity. Also, it's pretty obvious that the two genders evolved to be paired for procreation, that's biology 101. Now show me where the Catholic Church invented marriage or Jesus condoned bigotry and discrimination.

Democracies have had crimes against humanity as well... pretty much all of them.

Any democratic society that perpetrates a crime against humanity should not be forgiven either. In addition to individuals, nations and organizations should be held accountable for their crimes.

Hope you've been protesting your government just as hard if not harder then.  Considering your countries abuses are centuries more recent and still somewhat ongoing with it's poor current treatment of natives.

If we only count negative actions... Canada is in a worse off place currently.

Well duh.   That's kinda the main tenant of all Christanity.

That all people fall short of the hopes god created for mankind and as such, need forgiveness.

As for arrogance... I'd say your being at least as arrogant as any pope.

As for him being irrelevent... you don't act like he's irrelevent to you... and quite honestly the Catholic Church does more for charity then I believe any other charitable organization does in the world... by quite a bit.

Second highest i believe... oddly being the Mormon Church.

They may have some views you and I would find reprhensible however they are very relevent to the world, and in fact, on average have a very positive relevent effect on the world.

The positive effect actually becomes greater if you extend back through historty, even counting things like the crusade and inqusition blindly as bad.  (inqusition probably was, the Crusades though were an interesting case which I could write paragraphs on.)

If it weren't for the Catholic Church... we'd probably be decades behind in modern technology for example.

I despise Canada far greater than you could ever imagine my friend. Although I doubt anything could be a greater force for evil than the Catholic Church.

Well duh.   That's kinda the main tenant of all Christanity.

That all people fall short of the hopes god created for mankind and as such, need forgiveness.

As for arrogance... I'd say your being at least as arrogant as any pope.

As for him being irrelevent... you don't act like he's irrelevent to you... and quite honestly the Catholic Church does more for charity then I believe any other charitable organization does in the world... by quite a bit.

Second highest i believe... oddly being the Mormon Church.

They may have some views you and I would find reprhensible however they are very relevent to the world, and in fact, on average have a very positive relevent effect on the world.

The positive effect actually becomes greater if you extend back through historty, even counting things like the crusade and inqusition blindly as bad.  (inqusition probably was, the Crusades though were an interesting case which I could write paragraphs on.)

If it weren't for the Catholic Church... we'd probably be decades behind in modern technology for example.