L.J. Writes

Looks like there's an upside to the whole "Catholics don't read the Bible >:(" (at least not in a literal sense) thing that kind of tore Europe apart back in the day XD I like the flexibility in that line of thought! Admittedly it's my Protestant and Calvinist background that has to get the text to Make Sense and be internally consistent--which is sort of a joke when you have a collection of fragmented texts, chosen for arbitrary and political reasons, that span millennia.

Heh, major customs die hard. People frequently want their pairings to be blessed and celebrated by family and close friends, and even for a lot of people without faith the template for that is a place of worship of some kind. People's conceptions aren't that rationally engineered, though I agree going back to the basics and questioning assumptions is necessary when there is injustice going on, i.e. with the former prohibition on same-sex marriage.