Gay rights within the template of religion proves flaws in "religion"

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First of all Matthew did meet Jesus he was one of his apostles.

Nope!

The text of the book never mentions the author by name, and the "according to Matthew," bit of the title was a later addition, coming sometime in the second century. The idea that the author was Matthew the disciple and not some other Matthew was added in later still by a christian bishop named Papias, and has no evidentiary support of its own. Nowhere in the text can you find the claim that these events were eyewitnessed, as they would have been if it was authored by Matthew the apostle, and current christian scholarship indicates that the gospels of both Matthew and Luke draw heavily from the earliest gospel, Mark's, which again, they would not have to do if Matthew the apostle was the writer.

Incidentally, that very same accepted christian scholarship indicates that the gospel authorship is entirely anonymous on all counts, so you have literally no grounding to suggest that any Matthew wrote the gospel, let alone the specific one you're thinking of.

Did you do any research on this at all, or is this another one of those "I don't care about the facts, this is what I believe!" kind of things?

What I was saying about my quote was that there are pretty clear standards of what a marriage is, between man and woman, if you don't see this you haven't read my quote.

The quote merely mentions marriage between a man and a woman, it doesn't endorse it specifically, nor does it disparage gay marriage. Again, if you're merely going to accept that this is against gay marriage because it isn't mentioned, then you also have to be against being single, being asexual, and being a fisherman; after all, none of those things are specifically mentioned in that passage, which is apparently all you need to decide god is against it, right?

Or are you being totally inconsistent again?

Finally the quote Jesus said was actually a quote from the old testament Genesis 22-24" For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh."

... Attributed to him by an anonymous author who never met the guy, on both counts. Yes.

A book says a thing, the author has no way to know what he's talking about, but whatever, you believe it, facts be damned!