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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: DiogenesLamp

Jews don’t follow the ‘old testament.’

The Jewish view on homosexuality is concerned with the act not civil marriage (which isn’t recognized by God), and the Jew can repent for such acts. I’m not going to give Hebrew lessons on a thread like this, but do know ‘death’ as a penalty is commonly interpreted by Jews as ‘away from God.’

There were Jews in this country before the Declaration of Independence. Early settlers came here for religious freedom.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/amsterdam.html

If ever there is a Jewish president, the ‘no working on the Sabbath’ would apply to Friday night sundown to sundown on Saturday.

There is nothing in the US constitution or the Declaration of Independence establishing Christianity as the official religion of this country.


271 posted on 09/03/2015 3:35:00 AM PDT by Read Write Repeat
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