Dear Mykah,

You don't seem to get the idea. Nobody is telling churches who they should marry. The churches can voice their opinion, but they have no business at all deciding what the civil law regards as marriage.

We don't follow the Bible when it comes to cattle breeding, farming or textile manufacture. The following biblical passage has something to say on that. Leviticus 19:19 Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.

Thed Bible is no more relevant to civil marriage or sex in general than it is to cattle breeding, farming or textile manufacture.

>>You may have taken a different route to the Biblical one on marriage and sexuality but please don't twist the Scriptures to support your views.<<

Why not? Everybody else is doing it. The bible is a big book and there isn't one clear cut way to interpret it that is right and all the other ways wrong. Pastor Brian Houston, author of 'You Need More Money: Discovering God's Amazing Financial Plan for Your Life' is clearly not getting the same message from his bible as a mendicant friar. For two men to arrive at such different interpretations of the same book can only mean one of two things: either all the bibles in the world are magical books which change their text depending on who is reading them or people will see what they want to see in the bible and ignore the rest. The end result is much the same so I like to go with the 'magic book' theory: it's more exciting.

Cheers,

Tony