I would agree with you that contraception has allowed people to use sex as a recreational activity, but where you go wrong is transferring that idea to marriage.
Since you are so focused to the idea of sex as a means of procreation to the apparent exclusion of everything else, this will be a foreign concept to you, but sex WITHIN marriage is an expression of the love between a man and a woman.
Does it not occur to you that people have the option of being parents or not being parents? It’s a matter of personal freedom, which you and like-minded individuals, given the power, I strongly suspect, would deny others.
All of us think about parenthood and some, such as my wife and myself, feel that it was not for us. Accordingly, before our marriage I had a vasectomy, something I have never regretted. She and I had a number of good reasons to not wish to be parents, which I am sure is an abhorrent concept to you. Too bad.
Since the idea of contraception is so appealing to you, surely you have dozens of children, or you have little to no sex drive. Perhaps you might want to refute that by telling me how children you have. Hmmm.
Since you are so focused, Romulus, on the idea of sex as a mean of procreation to the apparent exclusion of everything else, this will be a foreign concept to you, but sex within marriage is an expression of the love between a man and a woman, not recreation per se.
Does it not occur to you that people have the option of being parents or not being parents? It’s a matter of personal freedom, which you and like-minded individuals, given the power, I suspect, would deny others.
All of us think about parenthood and some, such as my wife and myself, feel that it is not for us. Accordingly, before our marriage I had a vasectomy, something I have never regretted. She and I had a number of good reasons to not wish to be parents, which I am sure is an abhorrent concept to you. Too bad.
Since contraception is so unappealing to you, surely you have dozens of children, or you have little to no sex drive. Perhaps you might want to refute that by telling me how many children you have. Hmmm.
Disregard post 76 and its duplication. Here is what I meant to post:
I would agree with you that contraception has allowed people to use sex as a recreational activity, but where you go wrong is transferring that idea to marriage.
Since you are so focused to the idea of sex as a means of procreation to the apparent exclusion of everything else, this will be a foreign concept to you, but sex WITHIN marriage is an expression of the love between a man and a woman.
Does it not occur to you that people have the option of being parents or not being parents? It’s a matter of personal freedom, which you and like-minded individuals, given the power, I strongly suspect, would deny others.
All of us think about parenthood and some, such as my wife and myself, feel that it was not for us. Accordingly, before our marriage I had a vasectomy, something I have never regretted. She and I had a number of good reasons to not wish to be parents, which I am sure is an abhorrent concept to you. Too bad.
Since the idea of contraception is so unappealing to you, surely you have dozens of children, or you have little to no sex drive. Perhaps you might want to refute that by telling me how children you have. Hmmm.
That's a willfully perverse misreading of what I wrote. I said that the problems start when unitive and procreative elements are separated. That means they belong together. Get it?
As for same sex "marriage", give yourself a pat on the back for your part in mainstreaming the concept.