Same-Sex Marriage Is a Religious Institution Deserving Lawful Protection.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/g-roger-denson/same-sex-marriage-christian-history_b_6990864.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592Posted: 04/02/2015
By: G. Roger Denson - Cultural critic, essayist and novelist published with Parkett, Art in America and Bijutsu Techo.
We can hardly blame the Indiana citizens who aren't aware of the full history of Christianity when so many LGBT people -- when so many people of all persuasions -- are unaware that same sex marriages were sanctioned by the Catholic and Orthodox churches between the fourth and the twelfth centuries. But now is a perfectly good time for us to all learn about the centuries in which Christianity condoned same-sex marriage. And it's an even better time for same-sex marrieds to proclaim their marriages, their partners, their lives, their sexualities as essential aspects of their personal religions, whether or not they belong to an institutionalized religion.
And then, in Indiana, those LGBT individuals will claim that their religion which condones same sex marriage must, like all the other religions in Indiana, be upheld and protected by Indiana Governor Mike Pence and his constituency.
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This a very long read but I found it interesting. It suggests a flip side to these "religious freedom" bills that keep popping up and how it could actually work in favor of those in the LGBT community. It also makes mention of more than a few historical cases of same sex marriage. Furthermore how it was not until the twelfth century that "same sex marriages were gradually discontinued."
