“Cohabitation is always wrong.”
What a sanctimonious statement.
What a sanctimonious statement.
You've missed the important question: Is it a true statement? And the answer is yes, because, at the very least, cohabitation represents a public scandal.
Can you provide a scenario where cohabitation would not be wrong? I can think of one or two where, for example, your small plane crashes in Alaska near an abandoned house. To survive the cold, you must sleep together with another survivor of the crash, a member of the opposite sex, in the cabin overnight.
But that isn't the usual case.
I used to think that self-described conservatives agreed on a host of issues, but the more I hang out at FreeRepublic the more I find that we are lucky to agree on even one.
How can there be a "conservative movement" if there is no unifying set of conservative principles or ideals?
I was hoping that we could all at least agree that cohabitation was a bad idea, even if we differed as to why it was a bad idea, e.g. morally wrong, public scandal, bad for the children, statistically problematic.
Even those people who are for lower taxes, smaller government, making abortions illegal, etc. may have cohabited in the past. But I was hoping that they would say to themselves: "Well that was a bad idea, and I won't do that again." even if everything worked out for the good.
I've done lots of things I am not proud of, but I am not willing to somehow shoehorn them into my conservative beliefs in order to justify them and be able to go on saying that I am a conservative.
It would be interesting for someone to reference the words of Edmund Burke or William F. Buckley or Russell Kirk or any other major conservative figure in favor of cohabitation. I don't think its possible.