How much control over marriage did the Pope have during centuries of history?
Did he make the law for everyone? What was the law for non-Catholics?
Your preference for letting Islam define marriage, or to let the church of the gay blades decide marriage, isn’t very appealing.
Either way we get not only gay marriage and polygamy, but everything that every weirdo and atheist can come up with.
“How much control over marriage did the Pope have during centuries of history?”
None, Popes don’t have any ability to change the definition of marriage.
“Your preference for letting Islam define marriage, or to let the church of the gay blades decide marriage, isn’t very appealing.”
Another’s faith or the state doen’t define marriage for me. I doubt if it does for you either.
“Either way we get not only gay marriage and polygamy, but everything that every weirdo and atheist can come up with.”
If the state defines marriage, we get to be punished for not agreeing with whatever judges, pols, or the voting majority decides to call marriage at the time. Because that is how the state decides what a marriage is, it has no other way to do it. My faith isn’t going to accept polygamy or ‘gay marriage’, no matter who else accepts it. I doubt yours will either.
Freegards