They [i]might[/i] do that. So that means that [i]every[/i] person who chooses to remove themselves from arranged marriages based on the trading of sheep and money for young women is going to raise immoral children, and thus [i]must be executed[/i]?

:( That doesn't sound very moral to me, even for the time. In fact, it's quite brutal and incredibly misogynistic, both things that I don't believe any form of benevolent higher power to be. Right now, if you were married, Boerd, and your spouse cheated on you, would you advocate for your spouse's execution? Of course not!

And that's what I mean. Regardless of whether you hated your spouse's guts, or how many times your spouse was unfaithful to you, you would be able to look at the line in the Old Testament that talks about adulterers and say "I refuse to stone my adulterous spouse." And [i]that[/i] sentiment is part of the universal, secular moral code. Looking at something unjust, and saying "that is unjust", no matter who is telling you to do it.