don't tell a man entrusted by God to raise daughter(s).
"DakotaT" wrote:
With all due respect, I don't think God gives a shit about age differences when it comes to sex. If he does, he's an awful hypocrite.
Only in the Western world -- and only in recent history -- have relations between men in their 30s and women in their late teens raised an eyebrow. (Hell, Almanzo Wilder was 20 years older than Laura Ingalls, and no one flinched when he started courting her.) Throughout most of human history, such relationships have been considered preferable for many reasons, not the least of which that they actually protected women by increasing their chances of women coming into property in their own right. Until very recently, it was universally recognized that women had stronger libidos than men and were usually the aggressors in most sexual relationships. Just read the book of Proverbs or any Greek play and you'll see plenty of such references.
The irony of our modern sexual sensibilities is they were originally driven by "progressives" (the old word for liberals) and feminists, who needed some sort of common enemy to battle against and settled on male sexuality as their bogeyman. Now these concepts -- based on the rather horrifying underlying assumption that all men are sexual predators who must be forcibly restrained -- are championed by self-professed conservatives and Christian fundamentalists (yet more proof there's no difference between liberals and conservatives).
As long as you're willing to to acknowledge your prejudice against these kinds of unions is a personal/societal preference of yours and not some sort of universal moral imperative, fine. Don't bring God into it and try to convince me he has some kind of problem with it. Jesus himself was born to a woman who was probably no older than 14, and may have been significantly younger.