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To: superskunk
I see your point and I could accept Clinton's parsing of language if it wasn't so obviously self serving.

Actually, the part that seemed absurdly self-serving was when he was suggesting that if he'd performed cunnilingus that would have been 'having sex', but receiving felatio was not; if he'd simply said that he thought the question referred solely to coital intercourse, he would have been just as fine under that definition. On the other hand, I'm loath to really complain that he didn't add more activities to the 'not really sex' column.

FYI: In the biblical context (or at least in context of the culture of that time) a virgin was simply an unmarried woman. Having not 'known' a man was just assumed.

If that were the case, why the explicit language regarding the "tokens of virginity"? Also, it is stated that a man who lies with an unmarried woman must take her as his wife unless her father refuses, but must pay the bride-price regardless. If a man refuses to let his daughter marry a man with whom she is known to have laid, that would not make the woman be a virgin despite her being unmarried.

41 posted on 12/17/2004 6:13:28 PM PST by supercat (To call the Constitution a 'living document' is to call a moth-infested overcoat a 'living garment'.)
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To: supercat
"tokens of virginity"

I must admit that I'm not familiar with "tokens of virginity". I'm really not as learned in the word of God as I should be. I may have incorrectly read the context.

Pertaining to Clinton: If he had simply said, "I lied to spare myself and my family embarrassment."; I could have respected that. We all sin. Owning up to it can be difficult, but it's necessary.
46 posted on 12/17/2004 6:22:06 PM PST by superskunk (Quinn's Law: Liberalism always produces the exact opposite of it's stated intent.)
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