God gave Moses the Ten Commandments and they are in the Bible - The Book of Exodus Chapter 20. That's pretty much the official word of God. There are also seven references in the Bible forbidding gay unions; also incest and beastiality.

You can make gay marriage legal by the laws of man, that's fine, but the Catholic Church will never recognize it. South Africa, I wish you well. [/b][/quote]The bible entails more than the 10 commandments. The commandments are a mere sliver in the some-odd hundred pages that make up the book.

And, as I already said, any passage forbidding gay unions is the word of the author. Not God. I would hope God doesn't say, "Well, you've donated a fair portion of your yearly salary to charity every year since you were 25, you kept an open mind about your peers no matter what, you've been an active and faithful member of the holy church since childhood, and you personally helped clean up Africa... But you're gay. Straight to Hell with you, shabbat shalom mother-fucker!"