Christian doctrine dictates in Leviticus 18:22 - "Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination."
You really cannot get past that, I mean I believe in Christians values (to a degree) as it is what our society is based on but I wouldn't identify myself as Christians as I am not Homophobic.
I also find it hard to believe that two atoms randomly stumbled across each other and started the Universe but do not believe in an all powerful God.
All I know is that I have no problems with Gay people or Civil Ceremonies. What I object to is trying to change the definition of 'a union of Man and Woman before God' to 'a union of two people before God' as Christianity cannot support Gay Marriage. Marriage is a religious thing and you cannot get past that, or pretend that it doesn't matter.
In the UK (I would assume that) most Gay couples wouldn't choose to marry either as they get many more benefits (such as avoidance for some taxes) by living together unmarried, but there was also a statistic three weeks ago saying that there was a statistic that was something around the number of '3% of people in the UK consider themselves Gay' whilst at least 70% of UK residents identify themselves as Christians. I don't know but it seems insignificant when most of them won't get married anyway due to tax reductions.
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