Should America have traditional marriage? Or modern, equal, loving civilized marriage?
Marriage is a tradition, yet "traditional" marriage is a myth. The marriage tradition started as women being property and a commodity traded among men.
*The bible shows many instances of women as property.
*Raping one's wife wasn't outlawed in England until *1891*. The Times bemoaned, "One fine morning last month, marriage in England was suddenly abolished."
*Under the Nepoleonic code of France and Louisianna, women were considered the same legal status as children and mental defectives.
*Under English common law, women did not leagally exist and was forbidden to any personal property. Even her clothes were her husbands.
So when people urge 'traditional' marriage, why don't they include *all* the traditions of western marriage like the right to rape, beat, imprison, enslave wives, refuse property ownership, refuse legal existence, consider women as incompetetants and baby factories?
2007-08-09
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