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

[malthaussen]

52. Most people haven't read The Source

A lot of good work has been done just in my lifetime about the various patriarchial overthrowings of earlier matriarchial societies. Some of it, I'd say, does tend to beg the question, but the overaching theme of militant, patriarchal barbarians moving in and dominating more settled and peaceful societies, and co-opting the native gods while imposing their own on top of them, has been repeated with direful consistency throughout history. And arguably persists today.

What I find an interesting cultural phenomenon among recent militaristic societies is this: painting with a (very) broad brush, let us stipulate that authoritarian men really, really dislike women. There is certainly abundant evidence for that suggestion: one need only consult the daily newspapers to confirm it. There is further abundant literary and anecdotal evidence to suggest that, on the whole, men -- particularly authoritarian, highly competitive men -- prefer the company of other men in virtually every situation, to the exclusion of women. This being the case, and men being the controllers of society, one wonders why the hatred of overt homosexuality would have emerged in societies which do not any longer suffer the pressure to reproduce suggested elsewhere in this thread. I hardly have an answer to this, but one direction in which to look might be the Church, which has always used sex as a club with which to beat its communicants. Clearly the Church has a vested interest in keeping the marks feeling guilty about their sexual inclinations, however riddled with homosexuals that institution itself may or may not be.

-- Mal