Wow that second video kind of misses the point of the first. These people in the first video don't have a problem with homosexuality, they have a problem with same-sex couples in their one specific old ass religious ceremony. I know lots of Christians, and lots of people who have been Christian for years. None of them are anti-gay, even the ones who had those views in the past (ie the 1970s). They're happy for homosexuals to live their lives together, but for reasons beyond my understanding they just can't budge on marriage.
My problem with marriage is that it's a religious thing, when there's really no reason for it to be any more. If you want to have a religious ceremony, that's great. The religious and traditional ties are restrictive though, and makes it harder for the ceremony to keep up with cultral change. I actually understand why certain people who honestly believe in and live their lives by Christianity would not want this. Some of these people are told from birth that marriage is between a man and a woman, until they don't know how to think differently. The first question to come into my mind on this is: "Why are so many non-religious people restricted by the backwards old views of a religious ceremony?".
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