That's an interesting topic. Generally, it looks to me that homosexuality is viewed upon from two sides - sex between the same gender as a whole, and taking the passive role in it.
While rejection of homosexuals at all is a purely Christian thing as gay relationship contradicts to its basic principles, many other world cultures shunned only the passive role, which deemed to make a man a coward, an inferior subject, and equal to a woman. Besides, in small rural communities you needed to procreate regardless of your orientation, or no one would care of you in the old age, the community could die out altogether.
To survive you had to be strong, brave and share these qualities with your comrades. The more rights women got, and the less important brutal leadership became, the less influence the Church had, the more accepted the gays were.
In Russia for example males still form strong bonds in groups of the same orientation. That is probably one reason gay people are not outlawed, but not welcome to come out.
So Faroe as a small country pretty much fits into that system.
What I personally don't get why people want to have gay marriages at all. Historically marriage was to form a good starting ground for kids, for the sake of inheritance rights and to give the wife some security as not to be kicked into the street. Gay marriages produce no kids and few adopt them. Both partners should be equal in terms of income too. So it sort of puzzles me why people do not find just living together enough.
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That's an interesting topic. Generally, it looks to me that homosexuality is viewed upon from two sides - sex between the same gender as a whole, and taking the passive role in it.
While rejection of homosexuals at all is a purely Christian thing as gay relationship contradicts to its basic principles, many other world cultures shunned only the passive role, which deemed to make a man a coward, an inferior subject, and equal to a woman. Besides, in small rural communities you needed to procreate regardless of your orientation, or no one would care of you in the old age, the community could die out altogether.
To survive you had to be strong, brave and share these qualities with your comrades. The more rights women got, and the less important brutal leadership became, the less influence the Church had, the more accepted the gays were.
In Russia for example males still form strong bonds in groups of the same orientation. That is probably one reason gay people are not outlawed, but not welcome to come out.
So Faroe as a small country pretty much fits into that system.
What I personally don't get why people want to have gay marriages at all. Historically marriage was to form a good starting ground for kids, for the sake of inheritance rights and to give the wife some security as not to be kicked into the street. Gay marriages produce no kids and few adopt them. Both partners should be equal in terms of income too. So it sort of puzzles me why people do not find just living together enough.