Jarbaby, any time anybody ever challenges your sainthood, please use me as a reference. You’ve said beautifully exactly what I find obnoxious to the point of irateness about those arguments.
– Poly (half of a biologically childless and very meaningful marriage) carp
Although you know this, you’ll never win with these people.
These are the same people that say that fertility treatments are wrong because obviously you are interfering with God’s work. If you can’t have kids the “real” way, then obviously God was trying to tell you something.
That, almost word for word was the conversation I overheard at the store. Those people had no idea how badly their words hurt me.
You’ll find that a lot of the people who are inclined to tell you “how things should be” tend to have unhappy (and often hypocritical) lives. So, in short, Fuck 'em. You’ll never please them and who would want to anyway?
The 1662 Book of Common Prayer has this to say on the reasons for marriage:
I persist in thinking that any one of the three is a sound enough reason to get married … and that the third, in particular, is the basis of a successful marriage, and not the first.
(Yes, this particular religious rite does place emphasis on procreation. Doesn’t mean the secular state ought to.)