Christians used to have same-sex church weddings

[KingOrfeo]

The early Christian church solemnized same-sex unions with the same rites as heterosexual marriages.

There is, of course, some academic controversy over whether these unions might actually been have been nonsexual friendship/bromance relationships.

This is about on the level of a controversy over whether Liberace might have been straight.

 

[KingOrfeo]

And, as late as 1061.

A same-sex marriage between the two men Pedro Díaz and Muño Vandilaz in the Galician municipality of Rairiz de Veiga in Spain occurred on 16 April 1061. They were married by a priest at a small chapel. The historic documents about the church wedding were found at Monastery of San Salvador de Celanova.[61]

Also:

In 342 AD Christian emperors Constantius II and Constans issued a law in the Theodosian Code (C. Th. 9.7.3) prohibiting same-sex marriage in Rome and ordering execution for those so married.[60]

Well, you don't bother to ban something unless somebody's actually doing it, do you?

 

[EllieTalbot]

So go tell a forum full of fundamentalist Christians who rant and rave about same-sex unions being un-Christian.

This isn't it.

Informative in Iowa,
Ellie

 

[KingOrfeo]

So go tell a forum full of fundamentalist Christians who rant and rave about same-sex unions being un-Christian.

This isn't it.

Informative in Iowa,
Ellie

No, but we have quite an anti-SSM crowd here, and their motivation is clearly religious and specifically Christian in many cases.

 

[BoyNextDoor]

I am surprised Rick Santorum's head didn't explode when he learned of this.

... or maybe he secretly rejoiced because now he can come out of the closet and still luv Jesus?

 

[KingOrfeo]

I am surprised Rick Santorum's head didn't explode when he learned of this.

I doubt he has learned of it or ever will.