The Church of England and same sex marriage...

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The Bible also promotes slavery but that doesn't mean society has an obligation to respect it just because the Bible says it's ok.

For that matter, if you include the OT then you're allowing for all kinds of marriages (and rapes) that would be illegal today. And even sticking to the NT, women are supposed to cover their heads, and I believe even give all their money to the church and live communally (I'm too lazy to look that up), but the vast majority of churches conveniently overlook that. They can just as conveniently overlook any crap about "marriage is between a man and a woman."

And also I understand the UK problem is like the US one...it's a lie that the churches are fighting to remain free from being forced to marry gays against their will, but rather they're trying to make sure other churches beside their own aren't allowed to.

That aside, I don't care what you call a marriage as I believe a rose by any other name is still a rose. But there is a very common delusion that civil unions in the US are even close to being like a real marriage, and it's those differences that I'm opposed to in support of equality.