For the last few days, the topic of child marriage (among other things) have been floating around this rock. and now... i am fed-up. so, i'm writing....
I have
seen consenting young adults circumvent the parameters of their religion. One
gets pregnant. The resolution (as told by their religious authority): better
they get married. It’s not that they didn’t like each other and who knows,
maybe marriage was a Year Three Plan but the impending birth of a fresh human
forces an acceleration of the timeline. Whether they were THAT invested in each
other or not. They were, in fact, not ready for it but, lest they live a life
of sin (it’s hard for me not to chuckle at this point), maybe these consenting
YOUNG ADULTS should get married. In essence, the punishment for an ill-timed
orgasm is marriage.
There’s
the other, relatively innocent side to this: consider, two fourteen year olds,
who in an act akin to Juno, decides to (mistakenly) explore the awkward, non
Disney Channel parts of each other’s anatomy. And since contraception talks are
still an issue in some circles…. one gets pregnant and we say, THE BEST option
for them (these fourteen year olds) is to get married. …. because clearly, 14
year olds have a better grasp at MARRIAGE. The IRO Three says this will not be
done without parental consent but if your religious leader impresses upon you
the “right thing” to do, very few parents will say – “rock so nah!” … that
would be uncalled for. Now for the very worst-case scenario. WORST CASE
SCENARIO: a 20 something finds your 14 year old daughter attractive or some
“family friend” interferes with her but perhaps the ingrate has money or is
“enterprising” and offers to marry said daughter, will we really allow that?
Because, you know, religion. There really is no way that CHILD MARRIAGE in this
brave new world, makes sense. And if I were to follow the IRO’s logic that it’s
been done for years…. No, actually… I won’t follow the logic. It’s not… happening.
The IRO
Three says that this is all a smoke screen; the real issues are abortion and
gay rights. So let’s talk about that. I’m a Theist and even though I have tried
(I have, I actually and actively have tried) to separate the ME from the
abortion issue, I still don’t like it! It… it doesn’t bode well for me at all.
Scriptures or non-scriptures. But then again, if any girl had a child for me,
I’d be ecstatic! Are you kidding me? A chance to teach this child about STAR
WARS?! YES. PLEASE. Not everyone feels like that. Worse, not everyone is given
the CHOICE to procreate in peace. When a grown man forces himself on a young
girl and her still forming body has to bring a child to term…. She wasn’t given
a choice in the matter? She’s supposed to carry around this child because
that’s part of some Divine plan? Is that really what you want to tell her? And
don’t tell me, “the proponents of abortion have already been born.” Please,
that logic is flawed and you (hopefully) should know that. And here’s another
scene: what if, a husband and wife are having a baby and complications occur
and in a Grey’s anatomy move, you have to choose between saving the mother or
the foetus – in essence, abort – what should be done there?! TELL ME, DAMMIT!
One of my brothers is Vegan; I know he doesn’t like my carnivorous ways but
when my head hurts, he’s there. In the same way, should it… DOES IT matter that
I – a religious male – should stand in judgment of a woman or girl who actively
needs to abort? Should we have conditional legislation? Extreme cases?
Something?!
Okay,
so this abused child brings this child to term. She nor her single parent are
not fully able to take care of this NEW CHILD. But look! There’s two boys who
love each other. They give a little to charity, they pay their taxes, they
argue over which nerd house is tops. Oh, but they can’t adopt the child because
according to the same archaic laws, they engage in criminal activity. THEY are
criminals. So …. There is no release, no escape for this young girl and another
cycle begins. These types of things are hard for people like me. I’m Theist but
I must be the worst one because I have thoughts. I hypothesize. I think. I wish
I could just wave “The Good Book” at people but that’s not even how I was
built. Why aren’t we collectively thinking? Why are we letting these goodly
people tell us that it’s RIGHT – in any light – to have our kids married
because it worked that way for years? And why are these people saying the
government should stay out of religion? Where was that gusto when monies were
being funneled out?
And
while I’m here: Gay rights does not encourage pedophilia. Perverts do that.
Just today (20th, May 2016), I saw a post about a man assaulting women in bathrooms, CLAIMING he
was transgender. He wasn’t, btw. I tell you, it’s the normals that worry me!
WHAT
THE ACTUAL HELL, PEOPLE? You humans have successfully pissed me off so much I
had to write a gorfdang three page rant! So to review: child marriage is
asinine; abortion should spoken about and gay rights will not encourage women
to sleep with a horse. The end
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