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   From: kiltmac@gmail.com   
      
   On 10/1/2014 3:53 PM, RD Sandman wrote:   
   > Just Wondering  wrote in news:542c5f8d$0$1917   
   > $882e7ee2@usenet-news.net:   
   >   
   >> On 10/1/2014 11:01 AM, RD Sandman wrote:   
   >>> Mitchell Holman  wrote in   
   >>> news:XnsA3B8D3316F71Anoemailattnet@216.196.121.131:   
   >>>   
   >>>> Just Wondering  wrote in   
   >>>> news:542b5c88$0$4889$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net:   
      
      
      
   >>>>> It sounds like in his book, someone who points out a virtually   
   >>>>> universal historical truth as old as the institution of marriage   
   >>>>> itself, that contradicts what in his mind is "how things should be",   
   >>>>> is a bigot making silly claims.   
   >>>>      What is that "historical truth"?   
   >>>>      Arranged marriage?   
   >>>>      Forced marriage?   
   >>>>      Polygamous marriage?   
   >>>>      Child marriage?   
   >>>   
   >>> Among others.   
   >>>   
   >> Do y'all really lose track of a thread's subject so quickly?  I had   
   >> pointed out that marriage is between a man and a woman.   
   >   
   > Yep.   
   >   
   >   That is a   
   >> historical truth.   
   >   
   > Not necessairly.   
   >   
   >   The result of a marriage is a relationship consisting   
   >> of a husband and a wife.  That is a historical truth.  NOT two   
   > husbands,   
   >> or two wives.   
   >   
   > Wrong.  In some "marriages" it is has been multiple wives.   
   >   
   Yup. And in some cultures, it has been multiple husbands.   
      
   Marriage is a cultural construct. I think the confusion, other than that   
   resulting from religious beliefs, may come from the fact that babies are   
   born to one woman, and the sperm donor per kid is one man. Even if the   
   woman had more than one sex partner at the critical time, the child will   
   be the result (except in the most unusual cases) of one man's sperm   
   winning the race to the egg. Witness the observation that kids generally   
   look something like each of their parents.   
      
   When marriage is decoupled from procreation (as it is for all but the   
   most fanatical, literalist, legalist religionist in the cases of the   
   elderly and otherwise infertile marrying, as well as those who are   
   childless by choice), then there is no logical barrier to any folks   
   marrying. Although some groupings would seem to be both unwieldy and   
   prone to internal strife.   
      
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