In what civilization has there ever been homosexual marriage? None that I know of! This makes sense because states are in the habit of only protecting those things that enhance either its power or security. They're funny like that. This is why homosexual marriage has never been sanctioned by any state since the dawn of man. Because, unlike traditional marriage, it doesn't serve the "State". 

 

Until today, that is.

 

Today, certain people of power within the state and federal govenments, very few of which are homosexuals, have found a use for homosexaul marriage. Nearly all Judeo Christian based religions have some prohibition against homosexuality. Make homosexual marriage "legal" (which means sanctioned by the state) and you make homosexuality legal. This, in turn makes any church or organization who opposes homosexuality illegal.

 

Is it just a coincidence that the same churches and organizations which oppose homosexuality are politically and philosophically different than those promote state sanctioning of homosexuality? Probably not.

 

Tom Jefferson and Jimmy Madison thought they plugged up this loophole, oh 200 or so years ago with what people today call the Establishment Clause. It was designed to basically keep the government out of the private affairs of the Churches.

 

Only in America, a nation of lawyers, could something be used for the exact opposite of what it was intended to be used for! Which, when you think about it is what homosexuality and homosexaul marriage are all about! Using something for a purpose for which it was never intended to be used for.

 

GEJ