Alternative Spirituality

» RichardSpeaks - Gay Civil Rights

In response to Gay Civil Rights posted by spiritalk:
Ideal: The young man grows up, learns a trade/profession and then allows his father and mother to barter for a wife from another family, hopefully prominent. The wife then becomes the posession of the husband. She is protected and bears his children. In turn, she keeps his home and stays away from all other single men. Depending on custom, she will keep herself covered in as much a respectful way as dictated. As she raises her children, interacts with other wives in the community, and ages, she becomes wise. She instructs her children in tandem with other mothers doing the same with theirs on the ways of the culture. When her sons and daughters reach the right age, they begin the process all over again. The process is accepted as the moral and legal way to keep the society intact. There is no divorce, no abortion, no adultery, no homosexuality. The families all believe in the same deity or sets of deities. No one questions but that this is the natural way. Things never change. The one exception: Royalty.

Sucky, no?? And yet, until very, very recently, that is basically the way marriage has operated, in varying degrees, even in Catholic countries. It was only with the advent of Protestantism that familial questioning arose. Blame Copernicus for starting any questioning at all.

Marriage will not and cannot ever return to such a pristine state. Even the celebrated Evangelical Right can't control it. Might as well let the whole thing evolve. What with all the new ways to reproduce medically, even gay men will one day get pregnant! Then, watch out.

-- posted by RichardSpeaks