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Same sex marriage: an agnostic's view : Comments
By Don Allan, published 14/10/2011You don't have to be Christian to oppose same sex marriage.
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>>The "marriage act" is a piece of paper supposedly defining the reality of marriage. The reality is and always has been that marriage is the lifelong productive union between a man (husband) and a woman (wife) that envisages offspring in their likness [sic].<<
This eliminates widows and widowers getting married, as some of them do later in life, for companionship. Which is pretty mean of you. For examplet, I doubt that Wang Guiying and her husband will envisage "offspring in their likness"...
http://www.boundlessline.org/2009/01/its-never-too-late-to-get-married.html
Presumably you would be monumentally offended by such a marriage, given the strictness of "Philo's Rule" above.
And - just out of curiosity - what's this all about?
>>That females may fertilize themselves is supported by the 5,000 BC Biblical text of Genesis<<
Never knew that. But it is clearly a great relief to lesbian couples to hear that their wishes to raise a family are endorsed by your holy book.
In passing, I'd also like to question the assertion that Genesis is a "5,000 BC Biblical text". Most scholars understand that the Pentateuch was widely sourced, over a period of time.
http://www.awitness.org/contrabib/torah/moses.html
"...the first five books... are composed of a conflation of conflicting and diverse source materials with the component parts composed over a span of many centuries. Finally these divergent sources were edited and then conflated in a single set of manuscripts"
And just to satisfy my craving for detail on these matters, if you are willing to accept the findings of one part of the Bible, are you prepared to accept all?
Or do you pick and choose the bits you like, and separate them from the bits you don't like?
Just askin'