Originally Posted by LiLRexen

Marriage once wasn't "sanctioned" at all except as a way to form a union between two families for money or property and to create and heir to keep the bloodlines going. Up until the late 1500's the church wasn't even involved until the the Council of Trent decreed that a priest and two witnesses were needed to validate the marriage. So if we were to go back to the original meaning of marriage, a homosexual union would be frowned upon because a child could not be produced from a mixing of the two families, thereby weakening the family line and their hold on any property the have.