SAME SEX MARRAIGE - DOES IT THREATEN THE TRADITIONAL DEFINITION OF A FAMILY Submitted by Rory Donaghy
Today, marriage is the most essential of all human relations, and stands as the most validating aspect of commitment that two individuals can undergo. The fusing together of two lives, marriage is seen as a sacred bond who's history is as old as mankind itself. In the past twenty centuries, the church and religion evolved from small cults to the most powerful empire in existence. Throughout the Middle Ages and surviving through the Renaissance and Baroque periods, the church experienced century after century of absolute ideological domination. This undeniable yet continuous presence of unmatched power brought about hundreds and hundreds of years of social structure which now many consider to be natural law'. According to Christian beliefs, marriage is the holy union between a man and woman with the goal to reproduce offspring.
The institution of marriage crosses realms from......
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