Throught human history the idea that marriage is just a man and a woman is rather rare.

Most African societies, and many Asian societies, were quite polygamous. A man could have as many wives as he wanted.

And you know how straight men are. Many of them probably made their wives do things with each other. In fact, there are plenty allegations that is common among Muslim men who have more than one wife.

And actually, among the leaders of the Hausa, a Muslim society in North Nigeria, it was expected for the male leaders to have husbands as well as wives.
The Hausa people have terms in their language that are used to describe homosexuals. Two terms are common, 'yan dauda, which is usually translated as "homosexual" or "transvestite" and 'dan dauda, which translates as a homosexual "wife." The 'yan dauda in Hausaland engange in stereotypical professions, much as marginalized gay men in the west often do. In Hausaland, they are often engaged in the sex trade - both as male prostitutes and as 'procurers' for female prostitutes. In the latter role, they do not behave as 'pimps' do in the west, maintaining 'stables' of female prostitutes under their subjugation, but rather simply as go-betweens, arranging, for a fee, liasons for men seeking the commercial charms of female prostitutes. In this role, they often engage as male prostitutes themselves when the opportunity arises."

"Such a notion runs counter to what we know of homosexuality, and what we know of its history and its biological origins. We now know, for example, that most men in ancient Greece and Rome engaged in at least occasional homosexual contact, and a not insignificant number of the marriages consummated in both civilizations were homosexual. We know that homosexuality, though not known by that name, was not only tolerated, but even celebrated in the arts, theater and in cultural activities. The ancients did not view gender as a determining factor of who should love or be married to who; the qualifications related solely to matters of age and biological relationship (incest)."

There is no reason for gays to accept a second class status (so called civil unions) because of a bunch of lunatic evangelists.


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