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To: BenKenobi
If you don’t want kids, you shouldn’t be getting married. This is bad.

Baloney! People can get married because they love each other and want to commit to each other for life. My husband and I got married when I was in my mid to late thirties and we do not have any children because I can't have children. Are you trying to say your Church demands that we should not have gotten married, that I should be alone the rest of my life? How insipid and how blind to the work of God to call marriage "bad"! If this is REALLY what they are telling you, you may want to rethink belonging to an organization that commands so much of your personal life. Whatever happened to "what God has joined together, let no man put asunder"???

492 posted on 01/05/2012 8:28:05 PM PST by boatbums (Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us. Titus 3:5)
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To: boatbums

“Baloney! People can get married because they love each other and want to commit to each other for life.”

So what’s wrong with Gay marriage than? Are you against people loving each other?

“My husband and I got married when I was in my mid to late thirties and we do not have any children because I can’t have children.”

Did you choose not to have children? There is nothing wrong with being unable to have children. That is not the same as using contraception to choose not to have children at all.

“Are you trying to say your Church demands that we should not have gotten married”

No, because there’s a difference between choosing and not being able to have children.

“How insipid and how blind to the work of God to call marriage “bad”!”

Again, marriage has a purpose. Marriage for the wrong reasons is bad.

“you may want to rethink belonging to an organization that commands so much of your personal life.”

So I should choose a weaker church that doesn’t care? That really sounds appealing.

“what God has joined together, let no man put asunder”???

If marriage is based on the union, then things that impair the union hurt marriage.


497 posted on 01/05/2012 9:10:05 PM PST by BenKenobi
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