Message To Fundies Decrying The Supreme Court Decision As An Infringement On Their Religious Freedom

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The Church doesn't make a marriage legal. Only the marriage LICENSE does that. And you obtain the Marriage License from a GOVERNMENTAL entity. Marriage is, was, and forever shall be a CIVIL CONTRACT.

And anyone who knows anything about Biblical History should know that the Church didn't even PERFORM marriages until about the 1600s, when they realized they could make money by doing so. Up until then, the Church viewed marriage as a CIVIL CONTRACT that the Church should have no part of.

If anyone is interested, there is an incredible series available on YouTube done by the world's foremost Biblical Historian, Diarmaid McCullough, in which he explains the actual HISTORY of the Bible and the historical reasons why Christians believe the things they do today, and how most of the things the hardcore "Christians" believe today aren't rooted in anything found in the Bible. It's a fascinating video to watch if you have about an hour to kill. It's called, "Sex and the Church" and it's by Oxford Historian Diarmaid McCullough. Does a pretty good job of destroying a lot of the myths a lot of "Christians" seem to be clinging to these days.

For those who are interested, here's a link to that video: