Quote: (05-24-2015 02:20 PM)Gringuito Wrote:
Quote: (05-24-2015 01:07 PM)VolandoVengoVolandoVoy Wrote:
Also, as disgusting as I may personally think transexualism or homosexuality is, I see a big difference between what two unrelated consenting adults do, and raping a child or an animal, as neither a child nor an animal can consent to sex.
The origins of marriage were based on the fact that for a society to exist more than one generation, it must encourage it's members to reproduce. Our biology requires a man and a woman. If it required a different grouping of people to create a child then marriage would be been defined exactly to line up with biology. If you go back to ancient societies, some (like ancient Egypt) required childbirth to consummate the marriage. Divorce was allowed in cases of infertility.
Even in societies like ancient Greece and Rome where homosexual behavior was not taboo there was no big push to recognize gay marriages before the state. Men would have heterosexual marriages and then bang other men on the side and I do recall reading about how some male lovers in these cultures would have wedding ceremonie but there wasn't any organized gay marriage movement to recognize these relationships before the law as you see in modern times - they appeared to be largely ceremonial and just for the benefits of the lovers with the state playing no role. Despite all the man on man action in Rome, gay marriage was not recognized legally. Rather marriage was seen as vehicle for fulling one of the duties a citizen had which was producing offspring.
In Sparta, gay relationships were typically between a man and a younger boy. Once the younger boy got older his love would actually assist in finding a wife for him. I bring this up to illustrate that even in these societies were homosexual behavior was out in the open homosexual marriage was still NOT the norm since a lot of these LGBT activists like to point at ancient Rome and Greece as evidence for their cause. Even these cultures recognized that the essential nature of heterosexual marriages was very different from a relationship between two gay lovers.