You're now married - so get at it
Posted: June 11th, 2019, 7:24 pm
The Times today 11th June describes a wedding at which Turkish President Erdogan was best man.
In his best man's speech, he warned the assembled guests and happy couple against using contraception and urged them to have at least three children and ideally four.
In a previous wedding ceremony in 2014 he described the use of contraception as 'treason', for which the punishment is life imprisonment although Erdogan wants to restore the death penalty. Perhaps he was joking; or ...
[In passing, the C of E formerly used much stronger meat that present day congregations can take. The uncompromisingly direct language of the Book of Common Prayer (1662) - which is still canonically valid although the clergy don't like it - says that marriage “is not by any to be enterprised, nor taken in hand,unadvisedly, lightly, or wantonly, to satisfy men's carnal lusts and appetites, like brute beasts that have no understanding; but … duly considering the causes for which Matrimony was ordained. First, It was ordained for the procreation of children …..Secondly, It was ordained for a remedy against sin, and to avoid fornication…”]
In his best man's speech, he warned the assembled guests and happy couple against using contraception and urged them to have at least three children and ideally four.
In a previous wedding ceremony in 2014 he described the use of contraception as 'treason', for which the punishment is life imprisonment although Erdogan wants to restore the death penalty. Perhaps he was joking; or ...
[In passing, the C of E formerly used much stronger meat that present day congregations can take. The uncompromisingly direct language of the Book of Common Prayer (1662) - which is still canonically valid although the clergy don't like it - says that marriage “is not by any to be enterprised, nor taken in hand,unadvisedly, lightly, or wantonly, to satisfy men's carnal lusts and appetites, like brute beasts that have no understanding; but … duly considering the causes for which Matrimony was ordained. First, It was ordained for the procreation of children …..Secondly, It was ordained for a remedy against sin, and to avoid fornication…”]