Equity or Redefinition?

There has been a lot of talk, fighting, name calling, court cases and rulings about same-sex marriage. Its been looked at from many different angles but I don't think that anyone has looked at it for what it really is - the redefining of what marriage has been historically.

Most of the pro-same-sex marriage arguments will call it a rights issue or will attack the "Christian" slant of most of their opponents. However, marriage didn't start in 30 A.D. It didn't start with Moses. Cultures never having any association with the Judeo-Christian traditions have had marriage and those marriages have had one thing in common - they have been between a man and a woman. The Chinese, the Japanese, Southeast Asia, Northern Europe, the Western Hemisphere - where do you see same-sex marriage? Even in cultures that gave approval to homosexuality, the Greeks among others, "marriage" was between a man and a woman.

I believe that the same-sex marriage crowd fall into 2 camps. One is for tax advantages. The second is just anti-christian. For the tax camp, it just shows more problems with the income based tax system. For the anti-christian camp, they have always been angling to minimize the power of the christian faith and always will. But we have been here for 2000 years and will until the Lord comes to take us out (rapture).

I could go on but must stop for now. So for same-sex marriage to be legitimate we would have to redefine what marriage is.