RE: When did Christianity buy marriage?
June 28, 2015 at 10:22 pm
(This post was last modified: June 28, 2015 at 10:32 pm by Regina.)
I've been saying this for years. Christianity did not invent marriage, it is a practice the religion has appropriated from older cultures that stretches back into pre-history. It's why I roll my eyes when I hear this "in defense of Christian marriage" argument to oppose gay marriage. I don't want or need the "Christian marriage" pizza topping, I'm not a Christian. When I want to settle down all I want is the legal marriage contract in front of a judge and for it to be recognised legally.
You can have your "Christian marriage" for all I care, I don't even think Churches/mosques etc should be forced to carry out gay marriages. I just think this privilege for Christianity being an authority on "the valid marriage" needs to be stripped away. Nobody "owns" marriage.
You can have your "Christian marriage" for all I care, I don't even think Churches/mosques etc should be forced to carry out gay marriages. I just think this privilege for Christianity being an authority on "the valid marriage" needs to be stripped away. Nobody "owns" marriage.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
