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The problem with scripture, is that if you take it as the express word of Whatever God, then it is only the express word as pertaining to previous circumstances.
In order to cater to modern dilemnas (not that the HS question is modern) you have to use the previous guidance wisely (never happens) or receive new words from god.
Funny how god has stopped asking people to take a memo...
What this leaves us with are people from all differently biased backgrounds, trained in various philosophical and scientific fields and they try and re-translate what has previously been written. This won't work.
To your homosexuality question.
If you take the bible as your sole reference, and you take it's contents LITERALLY, then HS is not permissible.
The form of marriage as proposed in the bible is also very different to what we have now. It's usually a 2 part deal. One is the religious rites and the other is the publicly stated contract between 2 people.
Most gay marriage advocates want the LEGAL benefits. Not necessarily the religious approval. Learn to differentiate the two parts. They want the same benefits that 2 heteros would have if they were together for over a year or married by a licensed marriage officer. Currently they have no legal recourse on one another or their partners estate, etc.
Things to consider before casting your vote on this are:
What happens when one of two honest, law abiding gay people that have been loyal to one another all their lives, dies. Unless they have no heirs from a previous hetero relationship, the state will take all of the one person's estate from the other. All the things they have left to remind them of their loved one.
What happens when one partner stays home or gives up a career to support their partner's career and the supported one goes and leaves them? They have no recourse to the law like a hetero couple. Where is the fairness in that?
What happens when one partner is injured and on life support. If the other wants to keep them on it or in respect their spoken wish incase of this event, turn it off, they have no legal right to this decision.
Consider those aspects.
With regards to the Religious aspect, then there are as many answers as there are religions. If all a gay couple wanted was for them to declare their vows before God and their friends, then they could make their own church. It would still not be legally binding though, but would satisfy a religious need.
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