protestants persecuted catholics just as much as catholics persectuted protestants in the 1500s and 1600s. "For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due." "Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God." "And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh" actual quotes from the Bible. i'm not even really religious. i don't go to Church every Sunday. i drink. i smoke. some may say i 'debauch'. but i don't believe that quotes like these are apt for as radical interpretations as would be necessary to believe that the Bible does not condemn gay marriage. i have no problem with gays. my best friend just came out. there's nothing wrong with it. i just feel that gay marriage (being of the religions sense) is wrong. i believe also, however, that homosexuals with civil unions should be recognized by the state and that there should not be any STATE laws governing marriage by any means. same rights, different name and connotation. anyone else agree?