Reply #142: What a horrendous over-generalization.

[Warren DeMontague]

Wow. Just when you think only right-wingers are capable of uttering these kinds of high-test absurdities.

"I feel sorry for anyone who doesn't value her independence enough that she gets married"... Sheesh. I bet you wonder why more people don't show up for your study group, too. In your post, all you left out were a few other time-tested gems, like "all heterosexual sex is rape".

How do you know that other people's marriages aren't about "choice and reciprocal respect"? Where do you get off making those kinds of broad indictments of the choices other people make? To me, the flarm you're floating is just as bad as the right-wing fundies who say things like "all women should be married-- and subservient to their husbands".

All PEOPLE should be free to make up their minds about these things. I don't know where you're getting your "information", but some -many, in fact- people have good marriages, based on mutual respect and deep, deep love.

To my mind, it's very simple. Not everyone should get married-- but everyone should try to mind their own business and extend the same level of respect to other people's life choices as they expect for their own.