2004-06-20
NON-TRADITIONAL FAMILIES
The Gutless Pacifist, citing a Canadian website identifies 12 reasons why the Bible might not be the best source to defend male/femal only marriages | Far from refuting the premises of that Holy Book, several other mandates regarding marraige are identified that warrant review, including:
The Gutless Pacifist, citing a Canadian website identifies 12 reasons why the Bible might not be the best source to defend male/femal only marriages | Far from refuting the premises of that Holy Book, several other mandates regarding marraige are identified that warrant review, including:
12 Biblical Principles of MarriageI'm not making any suppositions about this, mind you | I am not of the ChristiAn faith, I recognize that there are variants in the basics of belief systems | But really, folks, get your doctrines in order before goose-stepping on other people's throats to accept them | ¶ 22:38
1. Marriage consists of one man and one or more women
2. Nothing prevents a man from taking on concubines in addition to the wife or wives he may already have
3. A man might chose any woman he wants for his wife, provided only that she is not already another man’s wife or his [half-]sister, nor the mother or the sister of a woman who is already his wife. The concept of a woman giving her consent to being married is foreign to the Biblical mindset.
4. If a woman cannot be proven to be a virgin at the time of marriage, she shall be stoned
5. A rapist must marry his victim - unless she was already a fiancé, in which case he should be put to death if he raped her in the country, but both of them killed if he raped her in town
6. If a man dies childless, his brother must marry the widow
7. Women marry the man of their father’s choosing
8. Women are the property of their father until married and their husband after that
9. The value of a woman might be approximately seven years’ work
10. Inter-faith marriages are prohibited
11. Divorce is forbidden
12. Better to not get married at all - although marriage is not a sin
Both Gutless Pacifist and the Canadaian site have the specific Biblical references cited for these edicts | You want 'em? Go look | They are extensive |
