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Royal Wedding: Archbishop Backs William and Kate's Decision to Live Together Before Marriage
The Daily Telegraph (UK) ^ | 4/29/11 | Tim Ross, Jonathan Wynne-Jones and Gordon Rayner

Posted on 04/30/2011 2:38:35 PM PDT by marshmallow

The Archbishop of York has given his backing to Prince William and Kate Middleton’s decision to live together before marriage.

The Archbishop of York backed Prince William and Kate Middleton’s decision to live together before marriage, saying that many modern couples want to “test the milk before they buy the cow”.

Dr John Sentamu argued that the royal couple’s public commitment to live their lives together today would be more important than their past.

But Anglican traditionalists criticised the Archbishop, the second most senior cleric in the Church of England, for failing to reinforce Christian teaching which prohibits sex outside marriage.

The row came as Prince William and Kate Middleton unveiled their choices for the royal wedding service, which include classically British music and hymns, and an updated choice of marriage vows in which the bride omits the word “obey”.

In a television interview, Dr Sentamu was asked whether it was appropriate for the Prince, who is in line to become head of the Church of England as King, to have been living with his bride before marriage.

He said he had conducted wedding services for “many cohabiting couples” during his time as a vicar in south London.

“We are living at a time where some people, as my daughter used to say, they want to test whether the milk is good before they buy the cow,” he said. “For some people that’s where their journeys are.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Mainline Protestant; Moral Issues
KEYWORDS: anglican; archbishopofyork; churchofengland; cohabitation; royalwedding; sentamu
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A truly awful metaphor, aside from the flawed theology.
1 posted on 04/30/2011 2:38:40 PM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

Just wow.


2 posted on 04/30/2011 2:41:43 PM PDT by WinOne4TheGipper (THERE IS NO EXCUSE ANY LONGER.)
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To: marshmallow

My guess is that the vast majority of couples live together prior to marriage.


3 posted on 04/30/2011 2:43:13 PM PDT by trumandogz
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To: marshmallow

I lived with my wife before I married her, and even I know I was wrong for doing it...but on the other hand, if I hadn’t, she wouldn’t have become a Christian.

Hard to figure out which way the see-saw drops on that one.


4 posted on 04/30/2011 2:43:13 PM PDT by struggle ((The struggle continues))
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To: marshmallow
“test the milk before they buy the cow”.

I would expect this, maybe, from a college age jerkoff, but a Christian archbishop? Stick a fork in the UK, it's done.

5 posted on 04/30/2011 2:43:35 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: marshmallow

Kate’s a milk cow now?


6 posted on 04/30/2011 2:43:37 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (We don't need to win elections. We need to win a revolution.)
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To: trumandogz

Yea and divorce rates coincide with people shacking up...This is the biggest myth that liberal have come up with.. Statistics show people who live together before marriage have greater chance of getting a divorce than people who don’t.


7 posted on 04/30/2011 2:45:11 PM PDT by scbison
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To: marshmallow

(face palm)


8 posted on 04/30/2011 2:45:17 PM PDT by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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To: marshmallow

Awful metaphor, but so very accurate of how people are today...


9 posted on 04/30/2011 2:46:01 PM PDT by LastNorwegian
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To: scbison

can you show me where you got these stats please


10 posted on 04/30/2011 2:48:04 PM PDT by manc (Shame on all who voted for the repeal of DADT, who supported it or never tried to stop it. Traitors)
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To: marshmallow

And in Texas, the adage is, “Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?”

More common, IMHO, and couples who live together before marriage are more likely to divorce. But hey, best to ‘em...

Colonel, USAFR


11 posted on 04/30/2011 2:48:14 PM PDT by jagusafr ("We hold these truths to be self-evident...")
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To: marshmallow

“Test the milk before they buy the cow.”

Terrible metaphor. Kate is a milk cow that needs to be tested (have sex with) before marriage?


12 posted on 04/30/2011 2:48:45 PM PDT by ConservativeTeen (Proud Right Wing Extremist)
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To: struggle

“And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.”

Romans 3:8

Joseph’s brothers threw him into the pit, and sold him to slavers. If they had not done that, Egypt would not have been saved from famine. So does that make what they did right? Hardly.

God could have saved your wife without your sin; he could have saved Egypt without Joseph’s brothers’ sin, as well. Just because God in His incredible mercy overcomes evil with good doesn’t mean evil is ok.

I am not assaulting you personally, because I (not a Christian at the time) lived together before marriage as well. I am just making what I think is a very important theological point.


13 posted on 04/30/2011 2:48:57 PM PDT by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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To: marshmallow

I’d rather my kids live with their future spouse too instead of them now moving in once married and finding out that they have made a huge mistake like he’s a slob, she’s a layabout etc


14 posted on 04/30/2011 2:48:57 PM PDT by manc (Shame on all who voted for the repeal of DADT, who supported it or never tried to stop it. Traitors)
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To: marshmallow

Well the one thing I can attest to personally is the fact that women nowadays seem to develop what I can only describe as an extreme cavalier attitude shortly after marriage. And then shortly after that, begin to take more than they give regarding all aspects of a marriage.

I’ve always believed each party should give 60% and only take 40% this way you never meet in the middle.

But I’m now twice divorced and have been living with a nice woman for many years that I met after my last divorce. And were both very happy and each day it seems is a new and exciting adventure.


15 posted on 04/30/2011 2:49:21 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour (With The Resistance...)
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To: trumandogz

Well, the sluts do.

Kinda good for the guy. No commitment, have fun — even if it leads to a baby, get out with nothing lost.

Women who live together with men outside of marriage are insane. And have no self-respect.

As far as the baby goes — all clinical research to date says children of committed (read: married) couples have happier and more fulfilled lives.

But who cares about that? It is the “I WANT IT NOW!” with no obligations generations we are dealing with.


16 posted on 04/30/2011 2:49:57 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats. /P. J. O'Rourke, 1991)
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“Kate’s a milk cow now?”

In the non-Christian view, marriage becomes but a contract wherein sex is traded for financial protection. Like whoredom.


17 posted on 04/30/2011 2:50:17 PM PDT by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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To: jagusafr

can you show me where you got that info from please.

I find it hard to know that today any people do not live together before marriage and do you have the stats on how many wait and then marry?


18 posted on 04/30/2011 2:50:44 PM PDT by manc (Shame on all who voted for the repeal of DADT, who supported it or never tried to stop it. Traitors)
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To: manc

“I’d rather my kids live with their future spouse too instead of them now moving in once married and finding out that they have made a huge mistake like he’s a slob, she’s a layabout etc...”

People are married many years and can take up or improve upon bad habits at any time.


19 posted on 04/30/2011 2:51:09 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: marshmallow

My wife and I shacked up for a couple years before marrying. I did it because I am a cheap skate and keeping one apartment saved us tons of money. I doubt these two had the same situation.


20 posted on 04/30/2011 2:51:35 PM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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