I honestly did not read the entire body of the post before responding. I am in complete agreement with your response for a number of (other) reasons/issues. I would send your response to the Methodist Church/Board & Society in Washington DC, if it wouldn't fall on deaf ears... When the Methodist Church denounced the Boy Scout organization for excluding gays (homosexuals/sodomites) I left. This wasn't by any stretch of the imagination the only reason, just the straw that broke the camel's back. You have stated simply, that which is profound.
"When Judaism demanded that all sexual activity be channeled into marriage, it changed the world. The Torah's prohibition of non-marital sex quite simply made the creation of Western civilization possible. Societies that did not place boundaries around sexuality were stymied in their development. The subsequent dominance of the Western world can largely be attributed to the sexual revolution initiated by Judaism and later carried forward by Christianity..."
I know a couple of guys who are pretty sure they have that right now, if by bestial you mean married to a b!tch.
No, the slippery slope began when the state abolished marriage and replaced it with registered cohabitation with benefits.
It is not surprising that gays, polygamists, pedophiles, and animal lovers want in on the action.
Posters who write, "Marriage is between one man and one woman" are correct only in part.
The part they leave out is, "and it is permanent".
That little part, when it was eliminated, was the start of the slippery slope.