Re: Were any of you aware of the Santorum google thing

On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Karl Swenson <[email protected]> wrote:

> Early OT was monogamous.
>
> ***then it was not so much.  So what changed?
>

See Jesus' statement regarding divorce.

***thanks for not answering the question.


> What's the benefit?
>
> ***more parents provide a stronger base of support for the famil and 
> the children, including the ability to keep at least one home with the
kids.


So the answer to the problem of both parents working is to add more parents?

**it is *an* answer, not necessarily the best one..  Since it is unlikely we
are going back, it is hard not to wonder about where we are going.

***Look, I am not necessarily advocating it, I am merely pointing out that a
lot of the arguments are fairly traditional, and that is no longer anything
we can count on being seen as valid any more.

***I fall back on CS Lewis's comments on marriage and divorce.

" Before leaving the question of divorce, I should like to distinguish two
things which are very often confused. The Christian conception of marriage
is one: the other is the quite different question - how far Christians, if
they are voters or Members of Parliament, ought to try to force their views
of marriage on the rest of the community by embodying them in the divorce
laws. A great many people seem to think that if you are a Christian yourself
you should try to make divorce difficult for every one. I do not think that.
At least I know I should be very angry if the Mahommedans tried to prevent
the rest of us from drinking wine. My own view is that the Churches should
frankly recognise that the majority of the British people are not Christians
and, therefore, cannot be expected to live Christian lives. There ought to
be two distinct kinds of marriage: one governed by the State with rules
enforced on all citizens, the other governed by the Church with rules
enforced by her on her own members. The distinction ought to be quite sharp,
so that a man knows which couples are married in a Christian sense and which
are not."
 
***frankly nothing about changing any of these laws changes anything for a
christian, they follow their own code or path.   My personal life and my
marriage (you know, my 'serial monogamy') is unaffected by anything that
gays or polygamists do any more that my divorce and remarriage affects them.

***And I know that some here see my marital choices in less that glowing
terms, by the way.  I am fine with your judgment.  


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