10 Reasons Why Gay Marriage is Wrong

[Roger Wilco]

Btw. I stumbled over this a couple days ago. No idea how accurate this is, but it's an interesting point anyway.

Through much of history, especially prior to the Fourteenth Century, many Christians did not share the view that marriage was a reward for being heterosexual, nor that a same-sex union was objectionable.

An icon from St. Catherine’s monastery on Mount Sinai illustrates this point. It shows two robed Christian saints getting married. Their pronubus (official witness, or “best man”) is none other than Jesus Christ.

It is a standard Roman portrayal of a wedding. The difference: the two saints are both male, Fourth Century Christian martyrs, Saint Serge and Saint Bacchus, close friends in the Roman army who were purportedly singled out for their secret adherence to Christianity before being tortured and killed.

Their unity, considered romantic by some historians and depicted through the image of marriage at St. Catherine’s monastery, was commemorated in many subsequent liturgies. The late Yale historian John Boswell found evidence for other Christian same-sex marriage ceremonies continuing even into the Eighteenth Century.

 

[Amaris]

I requested more information from Professor Maguire, including sources.

 

[propita]

I requested more information from Professor Maguire, including sources.

This is really interesting. Let us know if he gets back to you? And what he says?

And are there other interpretations for that icon's image?

Yeah, I could look this up, but you guys raised this.

 

[Amaris]

I requested more information from Professor Maguire, including sources.

This is really interesting. Let us know if he gets back to you? And what he says?

And are there other interpretations for that icon's image?

Yeah, I could look this up, but you guys raised this.

I'll let you know if he gets back with me.

 

[Amaris]

I received a reply. His sources are:

"HETEROSEXISM IN WORLD RELIGION: PROBLEM AND PROSPECT" edited by Marvin Ellison and Judith Plaskow

"LOVE BETWEEN WOMEN: EARLY CHRISTIAN RESPONSES TO FEMALE HOMOEROTICISM" by Bernadette Brooten

"SAME-SEX UNIONS IN PRE-MODERN EUROPE" by John Boswell.