Well, this may be shit, but it's not random or funny.
The whole issue seems generally clear to me. The Bible uses the term "marriage" as a
spiritual bond, and as the Romans ruled over the Jews and new Christians, they accepted such a bond as legal. Over time and in many countries the legal term became marriage. Kind of forcing together church and state. Marriage is religious, period. "Civil unions" should be what all citizens grouped together in pairs in the same house have, with such legislated rights. But, it's called marriage so everyone gets pissed.
It's weird that even Jewish, Hindu, Muslim, Pagan, Atheist unions fall under the term "marriage" but gays do not. Hell, I think even murders can get married, and hopefully Christians would see murder as a worse sin than sodomy.
As for Old vs. New Testament, the old testament has the Levitical laws for the Jewish culture to live under as to serve god. As it has been said, Jesus said he comes to form a new covenant or system where the thought of the crime is worse than the crime, which
completes rather than nullifies the old pact followers had with god. However, although Jesus never really addressed homosexuality, there are plenty of passages in the new covenant that condemn homosexuality and it's forms and desires, such as:
Romans 1:26-27: "For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet."
Also, it is unconstitutional for gays to have "civil unions" because that today is a term used for a union that is
equal to but
separate from marriage, which is well, bullshit.
Futhermore,
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