Are You Good Enough to Marry My Daughter?
Here is a list of questions parents of daughters can ask potential suitors.
They say there are no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ answers, but I think it is safe to say that there are answers that are more desirable than others.
I find it incredibly hypocritical of them to subject would-be suitors to an interrogation when they themselves never had to undergo a similar ordeal.
Would you be happy to answer these questions?
Would you be happy to ask these questions to your daughter’s suitor?
Would you be happy to have your son answer these questions?
For Married Males: Would you have passed this test at the time both of you were thinking of marriage?
For Married Women: Would your spouse have passed this test at the time both of you were thinking of marriage?
If the answer to any of the above is ‘No’, why do it?
Posted on Thursday, January 17th, 2013, in Christian Living, Fundamentalism and tagged Courtship. Bookmark the permalink. 3 Comments.
“Obviously, if you discover the young man is not a Christian, it would be sinful to proceed toward marriage (2 Cor. 6:14).”
Stopped reading there. Assholes.
The answer to all of the above is ‘no’.
Do what, though?
Get married, or ask the questions?
cjmr: Do what, though? Get married, or ask the questions?
Why do to others what you would not have others do to you?
And, yeah, why marry into a family like that? Or, worse, be that sort of family?