Quote:Today the UK government has backed down on the gay marriage agenda, a triumph of reason and understanding of the moral majority!
It is a triumph of short-term political expediency. Long term, legalised gay marriage WILL happen.Such an event seems logically inevitable in any country in which homosexual acts are legal.
On the sacrament of marriage.
The seven sacraments are rituals invented by the church and are meaningless to non Christians. Marriage is not now and has never been a religious ceremony.Marriage is a civil contract between twp people.The Church blesses/sanctifies the marriages of believers,the church does NOT perform marriages. A marriage occurs in fact when the two people involved say it does. .Legal recognition is another matter; the FACT of a marriage must be registered under the conditions of specific law(s). Currently this is not possible for same sex couples in most countries.
