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The Legal/Immoral State of Matrimony: No Money Changers in the Temple
but "Yes" to Sex/Money Mix-Ups in "Marriage"
I cannot help but make a comment to an article by Sankara Saranam. His article on opendnews on February 24, 2009 deeply interests me. "Ban All Marriage" it says. This is my response ...
"I will take care of you and our kids if we promise to be sexually faithful. That partially non-negotiable sexual union is ( until we divorce ) not contingent on wether the spiritual marriage is still alive. It matters only that it is legally alive." That sounds like sexual slavery to me. Or maybe we should call it "legal prostitution"?
Jesus himself said "Give unto Caesar what is Caesar's and what is God's unto God". He threw the money changers out of the temple. But no one has thrown the legal/civil out of the spiritual/religious, when it comes to marriage.
So if I marry someone I am his sexual property and he mine until we pay a lawyer a fortune to undo the legal knot. Good grief, talking about a good way to install misery into human relationships.
We need a civil way to make sure that pregnant women and children are taken care of, either by the religiously appointed and condoned husband, or by society ( if he be missing ), and a legal way to insure that a deserted woman has the means to get a job with a fair wage and to be able to rear her children, with or without a man's help.
Sexual rights should never have to be legalized. Sexual rights are earned at the moment the man and woman say "yes" to each other for that particular sexual union. Period. You can not legalize that. What are you going to do? (" Oh, God, Honey, we have to wait until next week, my wife, for we have not got legal permission to have sex tonight :-) )
The Catholic Church told my mother and father that if they divorced it was a mortal sin punishable by eternal damnation, if they had sex outside of marriage same thing and if they masturbated same thing. They had eight kids and they did not want one. We have had two suicides and two whose mental chemistry is smashed. And the rest are a bit weird, as am I. I am emotionally a broken person. So I write because I am not mentally broken.
