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Now there's a neat bit of logic that makes perfect sense to me.

by a Taken In Hand reader on 2004 Nov 12 - 12:18 | reply to this comment
Old Message for a New Day
In an age when *alternative* lifestyles are all the rage, it is refreshing to read a levelheaded perspective on an ancient truth.

There are reasons why our ancestors did things the way they did them. Viewed from a secular standpoint, marriage - and, by implication, monogamy - may have evolved over time. Regardless of the origins, its all but universal acceptance through the ages is a testimonial to the intrinsic power in two becoming as one.

The curious thing about monogamy is that, regardless of whether one argues from a religious or secular perspective, the insights are always the same. Faithfulness to another human being is better both for the individuals involved as well as the society in which they live.

Nor is - within the bounds of marriage - encouraging couples to straighten out their relationship *by means of a twig laid to the backside in the bedroom* necessarily a bad idea.

In a couple of weeks, many Americans will celebrate Thanksgiving. The people who celebrated the original seventeenth century Thanksgiving were religious separatists who permitted domestic chastisement and eschewed what today we call *alternative* lifestyles.