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Originally posted by BlackRedGold25@May 17 2005, 11:12 PM
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.
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That's not true, there are many cases where you know if someone will be infertile or not. Different diseases, syndromes, and deformities exist that are often known at birth and guarentee infertility.
Are you saying those people should never be allowed to marry?
And what about people who are fertile but don't offer the "well-balanced" environment to raise children?
Besides, who cares about "historically"? This is the year 2005 - things change. Many people know today if they are fertile or not long before they get married.