True Colours wrote on Feb 9
th, 2014 at 12:49pm:
Quote:The legal marrying age in Australia is 18 unless a court has approved a marriage where one party is aged between 16 and 18.
Is there any scientific reason for this or did politicians just pull the number 18 out of their back & side?
Quote:Biologically, an adult is a human being or other organism that has reached sexual maturity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult
Thanks for the Muslim perspective on how to respond to sex with children.
True Colours wrote on Feb 9
th, 2014 at 1:04pm:
I have been told by Christian Aussie mothers that they buy contraceptives for their 13 year-old daughters because they expect them to be acing sex at that age.
Do you often ask parents about the sex lives of their children?
Quote:Science - good for some things, not good for others?
Genius. What does science say about raping kids?
Quote:A 12 year-old is allowed to have sex with a 14 year-old, but not a 15 year-old. A 15 year-old who has sex with a 12 year-old is technically a sex-offender under Victorian law while the 14 year-old would not be. An 18 year-old having sex with a 15 year-old is illegal, but 14 year-old having sex with a 12 year-old is perfectly legal. Make sense?
Yes. There is no point punishing them if you cannot figure out who is the victim and who is the perpetrator. We are not some backwards Muslim country trying to punish people just for having sex.
Aussie:
Aussie wrote on Feb 9
th, 2014 at 1:48pm:
Until 1899, in the USA, it was legal to marry a female 12 years of age, irrespective of the age of the male.
Chew on that.
It is still legal in many Muslim countries. Not just legal - but actually practiced. After all, Muhammed married a 6 year old girl.
Quote:Yeas, we cannot be talking about a 'Christian' Country allowing dirty old men to marry kids, can we. That'd be just awful, wouldn't it.
This is happening in our own backyard Aussie. Not in another country over a century ago.
Quote:Well, ya see.....it was Christianity which condoned this, not a 'Country,' and unless I'm mistaken, this Thread is all about the implication that Islam is a shocker because it allowed dirty old musselmen to marry kids. Did I get that right?
Muhammed married a 6 year old girl. Muslims have been doing it ever since, including to this day, in this country. If Islam did not permit this, we would not have Muslims smacking kids in Western Sydney, with the parents consent. We would not have this practice being rife all over the middle east, north africa and SE Asia. This guy only got caught because he thought his actions were so normal he tried to get his 12 year old "wife" on the dole.
Quote:Nah. I'm not trying to justify anything. Just pointing out that Christianity has an impeccable historical record in condoning, nay ~ actively allowing, it.
Thanks Aussie, but I don't see Christians standing in the way of pedophilia laws and using their religion as justification. I don't see Christians holding pedophile weddings in their back yard and rocking up to the centrelink office the next day for a handout.
Quote:Nooooooo. You are missing the theological point.
Are you a priest as well as a lawyer and a cab driver? If you knew anything at all about either theology you wouldn't be making such stupid claims, and you wouldn't be using the actions of old English kings as some kind of theological reference for Christianity.
Quote:Don't bitch about Islam and child brides unless you want to do the same with Christianity. The point is not 'legal.'
And why not? Are you suggesting the two religions are identical? Are we not allowed to discuss the serious issue of pedophilia within Islam (even Gandalf admits it is a problem) without some idiot apologist insisting it is necessary we pretend other religions have the exact same problem?