Premarital Sex Should Be Illegal! Says Fundamentalist
Posted by doctore0 on March 18, 2013
“Continuing what seems to be a news week full of doofuses making fools of themselves over sexual politics, a Family Research Council leader took to the radio to say that we ought to punish premarital sex like we used to… because young people were never given the “right” to have sexual intercourse outside of marriage.
While guesting on Washington Watch Monday afternoon, FRC senior fellow Pat Fagan argued that the 1972 Supreme Court court case Eisenstadt v. Baird, which overturned a Massachusetts law banning the distribution of contraceptives to unmarried people, is quite possibly “the single most destructive decision in the history of the Court.”*
No one gave young people the “right” to have premarital sex, according to Family Research Council senior fellow Pat Fagan. Right. He even argues that it should be illegal!
Mordanicus said
Like always, religious fundamentalists have absolutely ZERO knowledge about history. All societies in history did ban pre-marital sex? Nope. almost every ancient society did tolerate prostitution, for instance. Hammurabi did not ban brothels, he regulated their practices. In Ancient Greece it was accepted that men cheated on their wives by visiting prostitutes.
Some “primitives” societies did (or do) not recognise marriage at all.
And an appeal to ancient traditions is just a fallacy, should we reinstate slavery because people practised it for thousands of years?
Futher why should the government interfere in activities which do not harm anyone ouitside the (consentin) parties involved?