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To: GeronL

I didn’t think the Catholic Church recognizes marriages that aren’t consummated in the usual way. Hence the refusal of paraplegics and others who are impotent from getting married. And it is also a frequent argument against same sex marriage, because in order for a true marriage to take place it must be consummated, or to put it bluntly, a penis must enter a vagina.


18 posted on 09/21/2013 4:19:20 PM PDT by Burkean (.)
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To: Burkean

Castrati opera singers like Farinelli at the time of Handel in the 1700’s, were not permitted to marry because they could not fully consummate the marriage - although apparently they could achieve some type of erection but not dispense seminal fluid and engender children. Which was why Signor Farinelli lived in a romantic relationship with a woman and used his brother to get her with child. He raised the boy as his nephew and left him his fortune. Watch the movie, made circa 1994. This was also why the eunuchs in the Middle East harems were completely castrated, penis was removed, to prevent any insertion.


24 posted on 09/21/2013 5:00:52 PM PDT by Ciexyz
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