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I married my first and then my second wife, purely to ensure my sexual rights?

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Don't have to go far before feminists give up their pretensions to be about gender equality rather than double standards favouring women, do we?
Posted by Jardine K. Jardine, Thursday, 4 September 2014 8:55:29 AM
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OTB 'Christianity was liberating for women...'

Really?
Since when did you become the champion for Christianity?
Only when it suits your misogynistic views it seems.

The Catholic brand of Christianity doesn't allow contraception or female clergy, and still follows the often dubious advice of a book written by men, for men, 2000 years ago.

Give me feminism any day thanks.
Posted by Suseonline, Thursday, 4 September 2014 9:29:08 AM
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Suseonline,

You are right, I am not a practicing member of any faith. Further, I am for the secular State as properly described by John Howard when he was PM.

However I do believe in religious tolerance. John Howard got the balance right IMHO.

Just to say that there is a lot of depth to those marriage vows and they cannot be understood in isolation. While it is easy to deliberately misinterpret to scoff, there is a definition of marriage therein that is very usable and liberating. It was clever wording by the Christians to liberate and protect women by making them one with the man, the same body, in marriage. It did not give the man any more than the woman, they were to be equal. That is enough from me.

Yes too, to those who will say that the different churches interpret differently and some, maybe many, nowhere near as broad in intent and historically correct as I might do. In fact my reading of it is sometimes diametrically opposed to the usage of some churches (that seems to suit the organisation more than the flock).
Posted by onthebeach, Thursday, 4 September 2014 9:53:33 AM
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Deprive my husband of sex is something that
I could never do.
It would punish me too much!
Posted by Foxy, Thursday, 4 September 2014 11:49:23 AM
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Hi there FOXY...

A brilliant retort FOXY absolutely brilliant ! A lady with an immense intellect - I love it !
Posted by o sung wu, Thursday, 4 September 2014 2:44:10 PM
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OTB, I believe we had marriage before Christianity.
They may well have written in the old book that women are 'one' with man, but actions speak louder than words.....

Foxy, I agree!
I don't know why women are so often depicted
as not being keen on doing the wild thing :)

Cheers,
Sue.
Posted by Suseonline, Thursday, 4 September 2014 7:42:32 PM
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