As for Josh (Swiney), Well, it hurts the children, since they will never know what it is like to have a mother AND a father. It is like half of what the kids could have been has been ripped away. I for one know, since I was raised with only a mother and I know the feeling of wanting a Dad to be there for me... As for Arius, actually it really is not that hard to look for a society that had interracial/religous marriages... Ironically, just look at the Bible. Solomon is a great example. Oh and you know Bathsheba, the woman King David commited adultery with? She was married to a Hittite, which were very different from the Jews. However, show me a place in history where marriages between a man and a man or a woman and a woman have taken place, and THEN you are hard-pressed.