POLYGAMISTS HAVE 400 CHILDREN THEY NEED TO FIGHT FOR CUSTODY OF

Today's BIG YAHOO HEADLINE is about the Polygamists whose compound was discovered to be a BREEDING RANCH for children. Needless to say, you know what Sister here thinks of the whole thing. We're not for breeding indiscriminately under any circumstance in which people have choice, and we don't think much of these religions and cults that pretty much hold women to live lives BASED ON BIOLOGICAL ability to procreate. Mother's "love" isn't just about being "nice" to children. It's about meeting the needs of children too. And for girl children especially that includes being raised with a vision of possibility that goes beyond being wives and mothers, and especially not servile to a man (or many men) who take sexual rights with them to be their prerogative. So where should these 400 children go?

HOW ABOUT TO SOME PEOPLE WHO CAN GIVE THEM BETTER PROMISE OF A FUTURE that isn't convoluted by screwy parents! ... Especially not those females with the quasi-colonial modest outfits that hide the reality of what stands in our society as child molestation!

GAY MARRIAGE ? WHY ?

To me the only good reason for gay marriage is for wealth building, health insurance security, and well - all those other reasons people who would like to be divorced STAY MARRIED! All the reasons that two old people living on social security who would like to be married CAN'T GET MARRIED!

MARRIAGE IS an ECONOMIC UNION, just as THE FAMILY is - or should I say USED TO BE!

Sure people love, love is promoted as THE REASON to marry, very recently in history by the way!

HAS ANYONE EVER ASKED YOU ( A NEVER MARRIED PERSON) "HAVE YOU EVER BEEN IN LOVE?"

I don't know about YOU, but I can't believe the personal questions people feel free to ask someone they have just met - and in public yet. More than once, beginning when I made it to about 30, people - including a boss I worked for - took to expressing their suspicion of me by asking me "Have you ever been in love?"

I guess the assumption is that if you are not yet married you have never been in love. (After all if you love someone then maybe marriage is inevitable?)

THE OLDER YOU GET THE MORE SUSPICIOUS THEY GET!

What if you turn it around? The next time someone (a man perhaps) asks you "Why isn't a nice girl (woman to you man!) aren't married?" Perhaps you could say, "What's a nice boy like you doing married?!"

NEVER MARRIED PRIESTS AND NUNS SPEAK UP

If you are a never married priest or nun or a monastic we would like to hear from you about your lifestyle! How old were you when you took your vows? Were you /are you a virgin? Do you think you make the right choice for your life? Do you miss not having a partner besides God or not having children? How do you deal with lonliness, if you are lonely? Do you mentor others?

THE CASE FOR "SETTLING" FOR MR. WRONG IN ORDER TO HAVE CHILDREN DISPUTED !

The Week magazine, March 7, 2009 in the Talking Points section, page 19...
Love and Marriage: The case for "settling."

Discussing Lori Gottlieb in The Atlantic Monthly, who advises women that they should settle for men who are "Mr. Good Enough," rather than "Mr. Right," in order to "have the infrastructure in place to have a family," MEGHAM DAUM in the Los Angeles Times says "You shouldn't since this is no longer the 19th century." "The case for settling" presumes that motherhood "is as necessary a part of adult female life as breathing." In reality, "there are infinite ways to define a fulfilling life," and parenthood is only one of them..."

Lesley M.M. Blume in Huffingtonpost.com suggests a personal ad for Gottlieb to consider:

"SWF will condescend to tolerate a subpar, chores-oriented, largely absentee man to participate in joyless marriage that will resemble a mundane non-profit."

THE WEEK / DON'T LOOK TO NATURE TO GUIDE OUR MORALITY by Neil Shubin

"The Week" magazine, March 7, 2008, has a short article on page 12 mentioning Neil Shubin of the New York Times and his article about Mother Nature.

"When it comes to defining sexual deviance, said Neil Shubin, Mother Nature does a lousy job. In arguments over such moral issues as cloning and same-sex unions, we humans often cite what we believe to be "natural," But if you examine nature closely, "the diversity of reproductive strategies seen in animals staggers the imagination." Some creatures clone themselves, some engage in homosexuality, and others switch genders. The Komodo dragon, for example, can occasionally create off spring through eggs hatched without the sperm of a daddy dragon. These "virgin births," observed in zoos, are a from of clothing,. Several species of fish also can reproduce by cloning, which is an ancient strategy that "species use to survive in a dangerous world...."

MARRIED WITH CHILDREN EMPOYEES TAKE ADVANTAGE OF CHILDLESS COWORKERS

This issue was really burning me up this morning.

You're the one who has not had children. Maybe you can't afford it. Maybe you're infertile. Maybe you just never wanted children.

HERE COMES YOUR SOCCER MOM BOSS expecting you to cover for her, make up work for her, stay late for her, so she can go see her son or daughter play. Did you know your job description includes making up lies to her boss about where she is when she's taking an afternoon off to shop at the mall, get her nails done for a party, or running her children to the dentist? Or maybe she has you doing a little extra work running errands that are home and children related for her?

This woman is a business woman. A career woman. Educated. But now that she has children she expects you to UNDERSTAND that her children should come first - well, maybe not first, but a close second. And if you don't want to? If you refuse? Why that would make you downright anti-children, right? Anti-children, UnAmerican, Unnatural.

Think about it.

Have you actually gone to the home of your boss to provide free or low cost CHILD CARE for her?

PURITY BALL : GIRLS PLEDGE TO REMAIN VIRGINS

until they are married... But what if you don't marry ever? Why is this celibacy fashionable while long term celibacy is not? LINKED TO IAFRICA article.

WHAT DO CELIBATES DO ? HE WANTED TO KNOW...

Someone recently asked me what celibates "do" sexually. The term used to mean a person who avoids sexuality, including self pleasure and fantasy. A person who would not or could not be stirred. As science gets more sophisticated we realize that medically some people have low sex drives and some have high - maybe some people have none. Let's say it's rare to get through a whole life without experiencing the body and the body contains desire, expressed or not.

I usually say that a celibate person is someone who has natural drives but who CHOOSES not to act upon it.

WHAT WOULD YOU SAY?