[cre8ivenotes]

It is my belief that marriage was created and instituted by God. Just read the book of Genesis in the Holy Bible. It was designed for a union between a man and a woman. Any variation of this union by government or any other organization is absolutely ridiculous and is a complete corruption of something so sacred. Then again, so isn't everything else that has it roots in God. I myself...LOVE MY WIFE!

[goldstategop]

Its the old joke: God would have a partner exactly like Adam if He hadn't screwed up with that side he took out of the poor fellow.

[cre8ivenotes]

To clarify my previous post. When I said the following line:

"Then again, so isn't everything else that has it roots in God" I mean that government and other organizations change and distort things so out of context that they become corrupted from the original.

[jlogajan]

It is my belief that marriage was created and instituted by God. Just read the book of Genesis in the Holy Bible. It was designed for a union between a man and a woman. Any variation of this union by government or any other organization is absolutely ridiculous and is a complete corruption of something so sacred.

Since you are referring to the Old Testament, didn't those characters often have more than one wife? It was also okay in the Old Testament to sell your daughtes into slavery.

Apparently God had a changing view on marriage and women.

[Kahonek]

"It is my belief that marriage was created and instituted by God. Just read the book of Genesis in the Holy Bible. It was designed for a union between a man and a woman. Any variation of this union by government or any other organization is absolutely ridiculous and is a complete corruption of something so sacred."

Uh... I don't think I'd be too quick to point to the old testament for a model of marriage. Are you giving equal weight to the following advice from Deuteronomy?

Ch. 21, v. 10 When you go to war against your enemies and the LORD your God delivers them into your hands and you take captives, 11 if you notice among the captives a beautiful woman and are attracted to her, you may take her as your wife. 12 Bring her into your home and have her shave her head, trim her nails 13 and put aside the clothes she was wearing when captured. After she has lived in your house and mourned her father and mother for a full month, then you may go to her and be her husband and she shall be your wife. 14 If you are not pleased with her, let her go wherever she wishes. You must not sell her or treat her as a slave, since you have dishonored her. 15 If a man has two wives, and he loves one but not the other, and both bear him sons but the firstborn is the son of the wife he does not love, 16 when he wills his property to his sons, he must not give the rights of the firstborn to the son of the wife he loves in preference to his actual firstborn, the son of the wife he does not love. 17 He must acknowledge the son of his unloved wife as the firstborn by giving him a double share of all he has. That son is the first sign of his father's strength. The right of the firstborn belongs to him.