Re: about feminism

It really depends on how you frame the issue. The Church has been anti-sex even in the pagan Roman Empire times, ie, before it gained political power to impose an agenda - any agenda. But it never made a particular fuzz about anything sex within marriage, and it sure never objected to prepub marriage. The attitude was against "recreational" sex, as it led to adultery; and against homosexuality, which ostensibly could never be within-marriage.

To read a specific anti-ped agenda there fits your preconceptions and expectations of the Church (not unlike GC's libertarians' of the State) but is just not historically accurate. Any apparent anti-ped agenda was only part of a general anti-sex agenda, and never was an independent concern as it has become today. I might grant the point for gays and BLers because they always were by definition outside marriage, but I don't grant it for GLers.

Besides, it's mostly moot because the early Christians did support the patriarchal system in which the father had dominion over his daughters and thus gave or denied permission to her suitors.

The feminist criticism is valid - but it is still a feminist criticism; and it is still not about GLers or GL but about parental authority (Ask Dissident. He knows more than I do about this - and you used to contradict his statements about this).

Of course, I need to add, given that I have made this much effort, that I wouldn't engage in any relationship with any girl against parental wishes (unless the parents were obviously abusive and not looking for her interests), and that I would marry a girl before going sexual with her.