Christian Seberino wrote:
... the alternative any better? There is risk in getting married but there is risk in being intimate with someone without a commitment too. Avoiding marriage doesn't protect you from risk.
Sure, but that's what condoms and birth control are for. Properly used, that mitigates most of the risk. "No sex before marriage" is an outdated concept, plain and simple. And, the church's stance that birth control being a sin is just plain retarded. It's a hell of a lot more responsible than spreading diseases, having children you can't or won't support, or marrying someone just so you can have sex. All three of those are bad things, much more so than birth control. If the church wants to be effective, it needs to change with the times just like everything else. Plain. And. Simple.
I think you are correctly pointing out a risk inherent in marriage. You agree there is also risk & problems inherent in a society without marriage? If the risk with marriage is being "stuck", the opposite problem with no marriage is people leaving too quickly without really trying to work things out. As I said above, there is risk both ways.
Last I checked, people do the same with or without marriage -- the only difference is the financial consequence present when someone does get married.
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