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- From: regard@sdd.hp.com (Adrienne Regard)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Observations
- Date: 27 Aug 1992 14:17:47 -0700
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- In article <67044@hydra.gatech.EDU> rpitts@emperor.gatech.edu (Richard Pitts) writes:
- >In article <17j6hfINNkc2@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com> regard@sdd.hp.com (Adrienne Regard) writes:
- >>>How about: Would marriage exist at all without the sex urge?
- >>Yes.
- >>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.
-
- Oh, Richard, don't get me on my (other) hobby horse! Marriage is a legal
- contract in the various states in the union -- I can't speak to foreign
- law -- as well as a religious ceremony. The reason for pre-nuptual agree-
- ments is to create an agreement that either changes the current marriage
- contract that one intends to enter into, or protect against changes that
- may occur in marriage law while one is in a marriage (it's one of the
- things I hate most about marriage -- there you go, getting married, and
- someone else's case law changes what your contract is about whether you
- like it or not.) Marriage creates a whole bundle of handly assumptions
- that serve the state if one of the partners happens to die or do something
- nasty. Whether it also serves the partners is for them to decide.
-
- >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?
-
- I would disagree, but I'll spare you all the argument.
-
- >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Marriage was sanctioned at the very beginning and has not been repealed.
-
- Marriage has been around a heck of a longer time than Christianity. Not
- knowing how far back the Jewish faith goes, I couldn't say. However,
- the notion of fidelity is fairly 'recent' within human history. Back in
- the beginning tribes, and even in some existing tribes today, marriage is
- not the only approved environment for sex.
-
- Adrienne Regard
-
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