Keith..Ed T has nailed it-

If only a few gen-you-wine same sex 'marriages' have been recorded in hundreds of years prior to the last 50 or so, all that proves is that various jurisdictions... religious & secular.. have conspired to not grant or recognize them. It has no bearing on whether they SHOULD have. As I noted earlier, slaves, women, Jews, etc... were once denied various things- from basic freedoms to the very right to exist!
Enumerating statistics, then arguing that a long history of suppression of rights somehow justifies that very suppression, is a curious way to defend a narrow viewpoint.

You seemed to say up there ^ that 'only when some arbitrary percentage of society allows gays & lesbians to marry will it be allowed'.... right. "Force our hand, then we 'may' consent."

Best I can do to explicate your strange reasoning.