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To: Ray76

Do you think post-menopausal women should be prohibited from marrying?


233 posted on 09/02/2015 4:18:18 AM PDT by eater-of-toast ("It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones." --Calvin Coolidge)
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To: eater-of-toast
Do you think post-menopausal women should be prohibited from marrying?

Let me give you more understanding of the underpinnings of our societal structure.

For those people that follow the Bible, both Jews with the Old Testament, and Christians with the new, are well aware, and always have been aware of the story of Abraham and Sarah.

By every understanding of man, Sarah was "post-menopausal".

According to the Bible, through the power of God, Sarah had a child anyway, and through this child there came to grow the nation of Israel.

This history from the Bible leaves in the mind of Christians that understanding that fecundity is in God's hands, and it is presumptuous of man to decide whether or not a woman can have a child.

Ergo, the benefit of the doubt for a woman is built into the social structure, and is reflected in the tolerance of non-child bearing women being treated by society as if they were.

So in answer to your question, "No." No woman, fertile or not, should be prohibited from marrying. Our system is founded on the belief that progeny is in God's hands, not those of man, and this universal societal belief is reflected in our laws, and always has been.

241 posted on 09/02/2015 6:32:16 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: eater-of-toast

You’re being ridiculous.


246 posted on 09/02/2015 7:44:04 AM PDT by Ray76 (When a gov't leads it's people down a path of destruction resistance is not only a right but a duty.)
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