This article seems to be using Boswell's long debunked arguments about ancient liturgical rites for same-sex marriage. See the following articles:
http://www.dailycatholic.org/issue/2002May/may23tru.htm
http://www.firstthings.com/article/2009/03/in-the-case-of-john-boswell-4

@rational-debate "I liken it to when I offer a child a chocolate biscuit but they refuse and insist only on a Tim Tam."

Of course in that analogy, you would be feeding the Tim Tams to yourself while insisting that others should be satisfied with some stale, broken No-Name brand biscuits!

I have a better food analogy, though...

Opposing gay marriage because you don't believe in it yourself is like demanding that nobody else eats cake when you're on a diet.

Childish.

@Cronus...

> "Judaism/Christianity is clear marriage is the union of a man and woman."

But Christianity is a load of bollocks, so it's "clear about" is completely irrelevant to anyone but Christians.

Why don't you get that?

> "God is held to have set the standard."

According to the myth, God created Adam and Eve whose children must have mated with each other to produce the human race.

Are you suggesting that God's standard of marriage is incestuous relationships between brothers and sisters?

Weird.

> "‘The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”’ "

Ha ha, Well it would say something like that wouldn't it!

Circular logic like that isn't all convincing to anyone other than a complete fool!

It certainly seems to have convinced YOU though, Cronus. Just sayin'...

@runner "and you will be the first to scream that its not fair just like those contracting disease through sodomy"

Wonderful sentence, runner! It captures so much that's wrong with Christians today; Your implicit delight at the thought of someone getting their "just desserts", plus the omnipresent, insatiable prurient interest that Christians seem to all have in other people's sexuality.

"Sodomy", runner? Oh please!

What century do you people live in?!

Quaint.

But runner, why does God need diseases? Why doesn't he just smite a few of the major advocates of gay marriage? He has such an enormous range of options to choose from -- frogs, boils, killing their firstborn -- why on earth should he pick one that couldn't actually be attributed to his direct Divine intervention? Why is that always his modus operandi?

If God wants to block gay marriage then he can tell me so directly in plain speech, and I'll happily submit. Until he does I am going to go on assuming that your opposition has got nothing to do with God, and everything to do with human fear and hatred.

Jimmy Jones, although I am not gay, I am not opposed to gays getting hitched,, what I, and I believe many others are opposed to is when they (gays) want to use the word 'married'.

I say to all gays, by all means live your lives as you wish, but leave ours alone.

The simple solution is to find another word, even invent one if needs be, but unfortunately, the word 'married' is taken.

Gays simply need to accept this and move on.

In fact, once a suitable word is found, we can all move on.