Quote: Originally posted by aCultureWarrior
So when HRC founder and accused pederast Terry Bean has umpteen of his underage boy toys over to his condo and is later arrested for raping one of them, that means that HRC founder and accused pederast Terry Bean will all of the sudden have to acknowledge that the United States has a 'state religion'?
Perhaps you could explain yourself better when you use the word "theocracy" Art.
No, laws protecting children have nothing to do with the implementation of laws that would deprive consenting adults the rights to have relationships outside of the heterosexual marriage paradigm - such as you advocate enforcing.
Keep up...
I'm trying Art, I'm just wondering when you are going to explain that legislating laws that help protect children from immoral behaviors and sexual predators like HRC founder and accused pederast Terry Bean, why those laws would create a theocracy and/or a totalitarian state.
(I've had my fun with this pathetic little weasel, now it's time to get serious).
As shown in your thread where you and your fellow sexual anarchists mock everything good and decent, the decriminalization of cohabitation laws have been very detrimental to society's most vulnerable: the unborn and children.
Quote: Originally posted by aCultureWarrior
[Cohabitating] was illegal and highly frowned upon by society until the US got 'civilized' back in the early 1970's.
After becoming 'civilized', non-marriage cohabitation brought wonderful things to society (wonderful if you're a secular humanist like the people joking about it in this thread are) like abortion on demand.
Chart: Abortion Rate Highest Among Cohabiting, Lowest with Married
http://liveaction.org/blog/chart-abortion-rate-highest-among-cohabiting-lowest-with-married/
If the female cohabitant decided to keep the baby, off the male cohabitant went because he wasn't ready for that commitment (hence children from non-marital cohabitation were raised in single parent homes).
Cohabitation: Bad for Men, Worse for Women, and Horrible for Children
http://catholicexchange.com/cohabitation-bad-for-men-worse-for-women-and-horrible-for-children
Oh and Art, remember all of those times in your anal retentive posts you talked about laws that prohibit children from sweeping chimneys at 3 o'clock in the morning?
Child Labor: White Slavery
Children were perhaps the most mistreated people in England.
Thousands of our fellow creatures … are this very moment existing in a state of slavery." So wrote
evangelical Richard Oastler in his damning indictment of 1830s Britain. He charged the nation with sacrificing its children at the altar of avarice. Thousands of children between the ages of 7 and 14 were daily being compelled to work in the Yorkshire worsted mills from 6:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. with only one 30-minute break.
As this situation became known,
Christians, especially a group of Yorkshire evangelicals, began campaigning vigorously for reform.
Industrial-strength exploitation
Young children had traditionally been employed in large numbers in agriculture and domestic work. But in the 1800s, they began working in stiflingly hot and unbearably noisy factories with their soulless discipline and order. There were no safety regulations, and financial penalties and beatings were imposed for the slightest slip or misdemeanor. Accidents and deaths were all too common.
Children were not, however, exploited only in England's "dark, satanic mills." They worked in gangs in the fields, often traveling miles in order to get to work. They were used in coal, tin, and copper mines, crawling on all fours like animals, pulling heavy loads. They also made bricks.
The use of young boys as chimney sweeps is well known. Many returned from work with their arms and knees bloody, and deaths from suffocation in the chimney were not unknown.
Lace making provided employment for girls. Many started to learn at the age of 5 or 6. They worked in confined spaces, in suffocating heat in summer and miserable cold in winter. Payment in goods was a widely accepted practice, forcing the girls to use the employer's shop, paying high prices for inferior goods.
http://www.christianitytoday.com/history/issues/issue-53/child-labor-white-slavery.html
Christianity and Judeo-Christian laws have not only been very good for children, they've been very good for society in general.
Moving on...