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- From: rpitts@emperor.gatech.edu (Richard Pitts)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Observations
- Message-ID: <67044@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 18:42:30 GMT
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- In article <17j6hfINNkc2@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com> regard@sdd.hp.com (Adrienne Regard) writes:
- >In article <exukjb.98.714932009@exu.ericsson.se> exukjb@exu.ericsson.se (ken bell) writes:
- >>In article <176sg0INN27n@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com> regard@sdd.hp.com (Adrienne Regard) writes:
- >>>What did you want to know about marriage?
- >>
- >>How about: Would marriage exist at all without the sex urge?
- >
- >Yes.
-
- I think I would agree that it would still exist, for sex is not what
- keeps people together - I take it that sex would still be there, but
- the drive would not be and so sex would be of use only to procreate.
-
- >Marriage is basically an economic contract. It only recently became the
-
- I'm not sure what ecomomic contract comes with marriage, for if it
- was such, then there would be no use for pre-nuptual agreements.
- There is responsibility in marriage of which finances are a part.
- As far as taxes go, marriage doesn't really give you a break.
-
- Actually, the need for such contracts shows a lack of trust in the
- person one is supposedly committing for a life time, isn't it?
-
- >'approved' environment for sex.
- >
- >Adrienne Regard
-
- As far as the Christian and Jewish adherents (I being a Christian) are
- concerned, the marriage covenant originated a little farther back than
- 'recently' and was then, as is now, within these two groups at least
- the only approved environment for sex.
-
- Marriage was sanctioned at the very beginning and has not been repealed.
-
- Sincerely,
- Richard Pitts
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