Posted on 05/29/2005 4:33:03 PM PDT by Graybeard58
Edited on 05/29/2005 5:45:46 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS OF ETHIOPIA
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"Teach your children appropriately while they are young and they'll make good choices later in life."
Birth control is not a good choice.
It is unless you are Catholic and/or have convictions against it. I and my wife are not, and wanted some say in the timing of our kids.
I don't approve of putting minors on birth control unless it is for genuine medical reasons, like regulating a troublesome period, but adults should use it as they deem necessary.
Then Gloria Steinem (spelling) et. al aren't true feminists. I've never heard them say a word about this kind of stuff if it happens outside the US.
Convictions don't enter into it.
Contraception was the first step on the path that led to partial birth abortion and Terry Schiavo, just as its opponents said it would be a hundred years ago.
Not to mention the fact that the birthrates in countries where they're widely used are below replacement, opening the way for the metastasis of Islam.
A woman could find no better owner than myself.
I agree with you. I was mislead and lied to by the feminist movement.
Yes, sorry, mind warp. But you understand what I meant to say. The story illustrates the fact that marriages were arranged, and in this case sight unseen, but that the bride was given the chance to give her consent.
The question isn't about a father's influence over his children, but about a father's control over a child's ADULT decisions.
There is no reason to think that a parent's judgement would be any better than an adult person's judgement when it comes to decide who they should marry.
If you want to control, leave your wife, have no kids, and get some pets.
I'm not saying it would be right, I'm just saying that it's a different kind of wrong when compared to murder or other serious crimes.
And my observation was more general than the specific case you cite - a spouse who cheats on another spouse deserves to get dumped, but they don't deserve death by stoning.
what year was that?
1970
"I'm not saying it would be right"
I know you didn't say that.
"I'm just saying that it's a different kind of wrong when compared to murder or other serious crimes."
Murder, I believe, is in a class by itself. Murder aside, I think deceiving a man as to the paternity of a child is a serious moral wrong, and should be a serious crime.
"a spouse who cheats on another spouse deserves to get dumped, but they don't deserve death by stoning."
We moderns are pretty squeamish, aren't we?
Perhaps adultery shouldn't be a capital crime, but I think we should take a deeper view of adultery. Adultery can create uncertainty as to paternity, which I think is the reason that adultery by a wife has in all places and at all times (except PC America today) been regarded as a more serious transgression than adultery by a husband.
That said, I think a spouse should try hard to forgive adultery rather than just knee-jerk running to a divorce lawyer.
"There is no reason to think that a parent's judgement would be any better than an adult person's judgement when it comes to decide who they should marry."
Actually, I think there are all kinds of indications that many (if not most) women make terrible decisions in men, and that fathers do a much better job of weeding out the non-hackers.
I agree, shame on you!
"Once married, the wife should become the property of her husband."
Once the misogynist, always the misogynist.
A lot you know.
If I hated women, why would I want to own one?
Because you are a control freak.
You really don't belong in American society. Your primitive mentality would be much better-suited for life among the medieval Muslim fanatics we are currently at war with.
One human owning another? That is not a notion that belongs in America. You, sir, are an American in name only.
For example, I said that society (which of course includes women members of that society) should regard a woman's entering a man's home unchaperoned, as consenting to sex.
There are all forms of communication.
A woman may say or write the word, "yes," or she may consent by a recognized sign, such as nodding her head.
Or getting undressed and climbing into bed with a man. Perhaps you would say that also is rape, saying that a woman climbing naked into bed with a man is merely looking to take a nap.
I suggest that a woman entering a man's home unchaperoned as be adopted by society as a similar sign of consent.
And once so recognized by our society--a woman entering a man's home unchaperoned will know that she is consenting to having sex with the man, and so it is not rape.
So since you either cannot read or willfully misrepresent me, I will no longer respond to your posts.
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