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Originally posted by Flames Draft Watcher@May 17 2005, 11:05 PM
Well based on that brilliant logic I'd have to assume you're against infertile couples marrying since they can't conceive together.
Since when was being able to have a kid what allowed someone to marry?
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Since marriage is an institution whose function is to raise children in a well balanced environment and society as a whole prefers children are born in wedlock, how can a couple know if they are infertile until after they are married? There is no way to know which couple is and isn't infertile.
And since historically there was no way to determine if someone was infertile you couldn't test before marriage to determine if they could marry. You wind up with a chicken and an egg argument if you attempt to determine that only fertile couples can marry while society prefers that only married couples conceive.
But it is easy to determine which same sex couples cannot conceive together.