Various Forms & Perceptions Of Marriage!

January 17-2008:

Various Forms & Perceptions That Marriage Take Globally!

WORD-UP:

Let us talk about Marriage:

This institution varies in content, perception, and application from culture to culture.

For example:

* In some states and regions in Africa. the male has to own animals or cattle to qualify for his intended female spouse.

* In other parts of Africa's continent, in areas identified as Islamic, the men can have several wives, as recognized in Islam.

* In Certain regions of India today, child or arranged marriages of young girls at birth or before puberty by their parents, are still being commonly practiced today.

* And women in that country mainly are still subject to the dictates of their husbands. They cannot ask for a divorce, or is not given a second chance to re-marry after their first husband dies, or is thrown out on the streets by him. She in fact becomes an outcast of society, and ends up mostly as a prostitute in order to survive.

* In Christian oriented societies, monogamy is the desired way or form of marriage. But most of this world does NOT practice that form of marriage.

And these are facts!

So when Americans swear by the Christian bible, regardless of whether they are Mormons, Evangelists, Anglicans, Catholics, Episcopalians, or Scientologists. They don't have the MORAL AUTHORITY to determine what form marriage should take for anyone!

Derryck S. Griffith.
NYC.