It was custom for some marriages to be arranged at birth, it did not mean that the marriage was consummated. It just meant the person was spoken for, there was an agreement between families.
Marry girls when they're '15 or 16,' said 'Duck Dynasty' star Phil Robertson???
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Liberals don't think Mohammed was evil...do they?
Betrothal and marriage are two different things.
christiefan915
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Case in point, the Virgin Mary and St. Joseph. Also, it was s.o.p. for royal families throughout the world. Here are a few.
1. Mary Tudor. Throughout Mary's childhood, Henry negotiated potential future marriages for her. When she was only two years old, she was promised to the Dauphin, the infant son of King Francis I of France, but the contract was repudiated after three years.[SUP][22][/SUP] In 1522, at the age of six, she was instead contracted to marry her 22-year-old first cousin, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.[SUP][23][/SUP] However, the engagement was broken off within a few years by Charles with Henry's agreement.
2. Catherine of Aragon. Catherine of Aragon was born into a family of kings and queens and was destined to become one herself. She was betrothed since she was about four years old to the future king of England.
3. Katherine of Valois. She was first betrothed to the heir to the Duke of Bourbon in 1403, when she was not quite two years of age, but this never amounted to anything.
christiefan915
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I don't.
I don't know if Mohammad was evil. Although I am pretty sure he was human, and therefore not the perfection the religion tries to make him into...
So here is the thing, and I am not supporting the suspension of the duck guy. Advocating the dislike of gay people is much more likely, in my opinion, to cause harm than advocating early marriage for women. The reason is that we are only on the verge of a place in society where homosexuals are being accepted, and there are plenty of people out there looking for an excuse and acceptance of the dislike they want justification for.
There are not many people looking for acceptance of marrying young girls, and society is not teetering between acceptance of that or not. It is a fairly established and entrenched idea in modern society that marriage younger than 18 is not a good idea.
There are not many people looking for acceptance of marrying young girls, and society is not teetering between acceptance of that or not. It is a fairly established and entrenched idea in modern society that marriage younger than 18 is not a good idea.
Good thing you never intended to marry her, then, isn't it?
BYW, is it a fairly established and entrenched idea in m,any modern societies that homosexuality is a sin?
No and no. But I am not* (edit) against changing established and entrenched ideas.
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signalmankenneth
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How Phil Robertson Embodies What's Wrong with the Christian Right!
We already knew he was racist and homophobic. Now it emerges that he thinks girls should marry at 15 or 16.
http://www.alternet.org/print/now-h...obertson-embodies-whats-wrong-christian-right
We already knew he was racist and homophobic. Now it emerges that he thinks girls should marry at 15 or 16.
http://www.alternet.org/print/now-h...obertson-embodies-whats-wrong-christian-right
StormX
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I will use the Hillary defense, "What difference does it make". How many teenage Obamabots are popping out babies at 14, 15, 16. By the time they hit 18, they already have two or three kids all by different fathers. Living on the governments dime.
Ishmael Pequod
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Phil Robertson kicked the left's ass, so naturally the reaction is to demonize him and turn him into the devil himself. Fascinating creatures.
Ishmael Pequod
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I will use the Hillary defense, "What difference does it make". How many teenage Obamabots are popping out babies at 14, 15, 16. By the time they hit 18, they already have two or three kids all by different fathers. Living on the governments dime.
Future democrat voters. Every big city run by democrats has a plantation.
Really?
Did you marry her?
Now, as to your second assertion:
Today, consensual homosexual acts between adults are illegal in about 70 out of the 195 countries of the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodomy_law
Unless those ideas are inconvenient in the scheme of liberal advancement?
I need to clarify, I changed my post... I am NOT against changing established and entrenched ideas.
So Homosexuality is illegal in less than half the countries in the world.
1) I would say that is not an indication of an established or entrenched idea.
2) We have already discussed, and agreed, yesterday that legality and morality are two different things.
They don't have any problems with liberalizing sexuality most of the time, do they?