This ties into my next topic of homosexual love and marriage as well. If we do look at marriage or love as a means to an end we can take your definition of a marriage stating "The fundamental nature of the marriage act, while uniting husband and wife in the closest intimacy, also renders them capable of generating new life". The issue i have with this is that it leaves out even heterosexual couple who may be sterile but live a complete Christian life which would deem their marriage not of the gods love structure. after all it is not their fault they cannot have kids because they can;t complete the procreative part of their marital obligations. however, these individuals are certainly capable in raising am adoptive child. The same goes for same sex couples. Partners may have the deepest love for each other and want to bind that love with a marital contract, but are unable to fulfill the pro creative part. If parents are fully supportive and loving toward their kids does it matter what sex they are?
A forum for Blog Community #2 of CSCL 1001 (Introduction to Cultural Studies: Rhetoric, Power, Desire; University of Minnesota, Fall 2011) -- and interested guests.
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Dear, Pope
hello his highness, i write to you with a couple concerns of a recent release of your views of god's love and his how and what you can and cannot do under his name. I would like to begin by addressing certain issues like"free love" and "married love". To start, you words on free love meaning extra marital, pre marital, and homosexual love which is against the structure of love that god has put up for us i think is highly restrictive. I think that these doctrines of coarse should be held only to those who are believers and true Christians which as we know not everybody is. You state that "every marital act must of necessity must retain its intrinsic relationship to the pro-creation of human life" is of particular puzzlement to me. One can look at the means or reasons why people have sex and come up with many different answers, or one could look at it as a means to nothing. not every marital or pre marital act has to look for a means to an end, in fact i believe that sex can be a meaningless thing that to some people could be as apathetic as a hand shake (which to me is not the case but for some people it is). I think that to put a means to an end to everything under the word of god would be quite crazy. Sex could in fact just fulfill basic human needs for people like human to human contact, procreation, or just romantic love. i believe It is to the individual to decide to what means they wish to act in what manner they wish.
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