[TheThirdRuffian]

"teaching Mary is not a perpetual virgin is the radical fringe movement."

Roughly half of Christiandom (if you accept that all Roman Catholic members and Orthodox churchgoers accept the Marian doctrines) is a fringe? And repeating that the rejection of the Marian doctrines is "new belief" does not make it so. Rejectors of the Marian doctrines have been present since before the Roman Church was organized into the Roman Church, Tertullian being the most notable example.

[D-fendr]

In terms of history and of adherents, Mary’s perpetual viginity is far and away the mainstream view.

“Radical fringe” was the characterization of the poster who I replied to. If it is to be applied, it was applied wrong.

[D-fendr]

Tertullian held that Mary was no longer virgin after Jesus’s birth - due to Jesus’s birth. Tertullian’s views on Mary and virginity were strongly rejected. I don’t think even Protestants would agree with them.