Posted on 08/09/2015 4:04:55 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
Thar’s exactly it. Lots of women live together as friends-— nothing wrong with that. Contracting “marriage,” however is a public step manifesting that this life-sharing is predicated upon a sexual relationship. That is really not to be tolerated. They are to be called to repentance, which would mean not only privately committing to live in chastity, but also repudiating the public so-called “marriage” aspect.
Exactly: a key distinction that most people don't seem to "get". And if the two women don't "get" this, they certainly have no qualification to be in charge of religious education!
I suppose!
The line about orientation or identity came from a homosexual activist group quoted by the biased journalist. Whether the principals in this article get it or not, is not made clear.
I can’t help thinking that there are people who could be happy and live moral lives in the context of chaste friendship, but the culture does not give them any vision of an intimate association that doesn’t involve sexual use.
Someone remarked upthread, “Why couldn’t they just be friends?” Why? Because we live in a culture that spells Love, S-E-X. A person could reasonably believe, no matter how much she does for others, that she is not capable of love, simply because she doesn’t feel an overwhelming urge for sex. What kind of a mess do you end up with?
I had aunts that looked like that. Humorous, intelligent, heterosexually-married aunts --- mothers of my fave cousins.
I'm not a gorgeous babe myself.
But not unattractive!
One has to consider the source (Rush Limbaugh) and then perhaps consider that “ideal” society that has no place for average-looking, neatly-dressed older women, no matter how humorous, intelligent, good-natured, etc., they might be.
No need to wrestle—God lays it all out in black and white, clear as crystal.
Exactly. God lays it out in both Revealed and Natural Law, and people seem to have become deaf to both. Which, actually, kind of amazes me.
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