Have you ever heard anyone ever give a single 'coherent' reason to be against marriage equality?

[RainDog]

50. Oh, and what I also find really interesting

is that Judaism moved from a religion with both male and female deities (female consort) when it was part of the worship of "El" to a patriarchal "no females anywhere to be found in the pantheon" with the invention of Yahweh.

Most people don't even know that Israelis (isra EL) worshipped the same gods as others in the region, with the same myths (Moses in the rushes) and this is still part of the "name of god" in the Old Testament. They just continued to elide the names, gave Yahweh many of the same attributes, and contemporary religious folk either don't know or pretend that Abraham was always about Yahweh, when, early on, Abraham's relationship was with "El."

The same goes for the story of Jesus. Whether or not he existed, the myths that Christians worship were all part of earlier mythological traditions. Just as in every other culture, Christians appropriated stories people in the region already believed about other deities - and continued to do so as they made the trek across Europe while incorporating Celtic religion, too.

Oh, and I do think that nuns are allowed to marry an invisible man-god. Not that that counts, exactly. Genders is still primary, but they marry an invisible nonentity.