I know the Bible has some significant historical value, but it always only been a tool to rule the masses. It contains the basic teachings of creating and maintaining what it teaches to be "the norm".
I've read the bible, new and old testament, this is just my analytical opinion, but I don't believe in miracles. I think that it's just a very human way of describing the unknown, but they're only called miracles when they're good things. I'm sure that odds are pretty even on the bad and the good stuff that's unexplained. We never know why things happened until they've passed and we've lived to the affect of the changes.
I'd be pretty damned upset if I met my wife and she was a man and I wasn't able to enjoy the shared benefits of marriage. It's not about the bible, but if you need it as evidence, the new testament has an emphasis on caring for your fellow man. That's the only reason we need to allow same sex marriage, to allow people to define families based on what works for them. I know the closest people in my families lives are not related by blood. The argument is mainly for insurability purposes. As it stands now same sex couples aren't allowed to designate a same sex spouse as a beneficiary. This saves insurance companies I'm sure millions in paid out expenses nationwide. Social stability is definitely a concern of insurors, those companies who collect a portion of each of our labors. Tithing collectors. Funding religious sheep in mad march against that which they feel threatened by.
We need to let our own minds govern our mouths and speak to that which we know is best for us all, in the cosmic scheme of things, we're an endangered SPECIES, race and sexual preference and all those other castings shouldn't be allowed to cloud our judgement here.
