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Originally Posted by GDB
I always find it humorous when those who argue for the "sanctity of marriage" forget that it's only been a religious thing for a few hundred years.
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Considering religion has been present in many societies for far more than a mere few hundred years, what's your basis for making this claim?
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Before that, it was all arranged marriages or bartered marriages done solely to increase your family's standing by marrying into a more powerful or wealthy family. The man would even have to buy the daughter from her father. So if you want to argue for traditional marriage, then fine, put a price tag on your daughter.
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If you want to make that argument, then go ahead, but don't try to claim that this has to be the argument that others must use.
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And that's not getting into the whole divorce thing, which is denounced even more in the Bible than homosexuality.
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It's actually not, considering the punishment for the latter is physical death. But let's not get into it here for obvious reasons.