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Is Not Getting Married Going Against Nature?

Sunday, 5. April 2009, 15:14:47

April 05-2009:

Is Not Getting Married Going Against Nature?

I heard this expression in a movie recently, and I was inspired to pen some of my views on this issue!

Most societies hitherto have had some form of mutual arrangement between two individuals, (a male and a female). This was done in private or public, depending upon the type of religious, traditional, or social norms of that clan, group, region, or culture.

Today in most modern societies, the institution of marriage is taken for granted, and most people, especially women feel that when they have gotten to know some male, who they may have been seeing, and feels that the emotional bond that was established between them, warrants consolidation through marriage.

Some women and men may feel that if a child is imminent between them, it would be in the interest of the unborn, to have a father figure to emulate, or help nurture during those early years of it's development. This idea has become institutionalized throughout the world today.

Marriage can also be a means to inherit wealth, ensure that wealth stays within a certain lineage or hereditary family too. We also have marriages between same genders, which is a relatively new phenomenon in developed societies.

However, if you have any comments or additions to add to this discourse, you are welcomed to provide same.

Derryck.
NYC.

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Various Forms & Perceptions Of Marriage!

Friday, 18. January 2008, 00:08:42

Marriage

January 17-2008:

Various Forms & Perceptions That Marriage Take Globally!

WORD-UP:

Let us talk about Marriage:

This institution varies in content, perception, and application from culture to culture.

For example:

* In some states and regions in Africa. the male has to own animals or cattle to qualify for his intended female spouse.

* In other parts of Africa's continent, in areas identified as Islamic, the men can have several wives, as recognized in Islam.

* In Certain regions of India today, child or arranged marriages of young girls at birth or before puberty by their parents, are still being commonly practiced today.

* And women in that country mainly are still subject to the dictates of their husbands. They cannot ask for a divorce, or is not given a second chance to re-marry after their first husband dies, or is thrown out on the streets by him. She in fact becomes an outcast of society, and ends up mostly as a prostitute in order to survive.

* In Christian oriented societies, monogamy is the desired way or form of marriage. But most of this world does NOT practice that form of marriage.

And these are facts!

So when Americans swear by the Christian bible, regardless of whether they are Mormons, Evangelists, Anglicans, Catholics, Episcopalians, or Scientologists. They don't have the MORAL AUTHORITY to determine what form marriage should take for anyone!

Derryck S. Griffith.
NYC.

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