Yes, double standards. Different standards are double standards.
In the account of the adulteress, Jesus forgave her. Why would you expect that He would go looking for the man?
The pharisees brought the woman who was caught in the act.
Well, if she was caught in the act, then where was the guy? They would have, and should have, nailed him, too, and yet they didn’t.
OT law demanded the same penalty for both men and women who engaged in adultery. That Jesus didn’t go ferret out the man is not relevant to what is being discussed, and that is that God’s standards apply equally to both.
The Catholic church is then hypocritical because of laying the responsibility of being morally pure on the man and having him set the standard for morals in society and the culture, they wink at it and lay then responsibility on the woman to say no.
It is not women’s place to make men behave themselves even though they have to do it.. It is the man’s place to control himself and PROTECT the woman from being taken advantage of. That is a man’s role, to be provider and protector, not the person whom women should be having to protect themselves against.
Men have flat out abdicated their responsibility for moral integrity before God, and have therefore no basis for complaint when they reap what they have sowed.
It may be life, but it is wrong morally.
I have to totally and respectfully disagree with this.
In the eyes of the law, yes, men and women should be held to the same standard. In society, this is not so. And it isn’t so because to do that would not work, and society would come crashing down, as we see happening all around us.
The big difference is the circumstances of the times. In Old Testament times and before, the main concern was the survival of the people, as a group, religious or otherwise. Laws were created to protect their identity as opposed to other peoples.
Women must not do this.. Men must do that... Women must not have sex outside of marriage. Men must get circumcised. Notice no one required women to be circumcised! That would be stupid. That is not a double standard, that is a different standard.
Women were required to be pure for a reason. To be cherished by the men as a treasure, thereby keeping them home. No one cared at all if the men were virgins coming into the marriage. In truth, a man who is clueless about sex makes for a bad family.. true to this day.
In modern times, we are not concerned with the survival of the people and we have become permissive and lax. If the times were again to turn and we were to see an imminent existential threat, we would again tighten up on our social constrictions and you would see these trans-perversions blow away in the wind like old leaves.