partner!!

A BBC radio presenter recently described the thirteen year old girlfriend of a sixteen yr old boy, who incidentally he had got pregnant, as his partner. Are we serious? Can we really use the term 'partner' to describe the illegal relationship between a sixteen yr old and his under age girlfriend and then use exactly the same term to describe the 25 yr marriage of another couple? The truth is that no one wants to call a relationship what it really is anymore. Once upon a time two men who lived together in a sexual relationship were called Sodomites, a man who lived with another mans wife was called an adulterer and someone who had sex with an under age person was called a paedophile but in our new age of equality and enlightenment we mustn't let people feel any discomfort or feel that they may be doing something that's wrong and damaging for themselves and society so we must now call a spade a partner or we'll be in big trouble with the equality police. Actually in the eyes of those who desire the truth any sexual relationship outside of the marriage of a man and a woman is wrong full stop. Marriage is the only relationship that God ordained where a sexual relationship is allowed. 'Marriage is honourable' says the Bible. And so it is!