OK...I need your help. I am confused after reading this story whether I should be saddened by the sinful nature, laughing at the irony, shocked by these events, or sitting in disbelief that this story is true. Someone please tell me how I should feel!
In Stuttgart, Germany, a court judge must decide on a case of honorable intentions in a situation where a man hired his neighbor to get his wife pregnant. It seems that Demetrius Soupolos, 29, and his former beauty queen wife, Traute, wanted a child badly, but Demetrius was told by a doctor that he was sterile. So, Soupolos, after calming his wife’s protests, hired his neighbor, Frank Maus, 34, to impregnate her.
Since Maus was already married and the father of two children, plus looked very much like Soupolos to boot, the plan seemed good. Soupolos paid Maus $2,500 for the job and for three evenings a week for the next six months, Maus tried desperately, a total of 72 different times, to impregnate Traute. When his own wife objected, he explained, "I don’t like this any more than you. I’m simply doing it for the money. Try and understand."
After Traute failed to get pregnant after six months, however, Soupolos was not understanding and insisted that Maus have a medical examination, which he did. The doctor’s announcement that Maus was also sterile shocked everyone except his wife, who was forced to confess that Maus was not the real father of their two children. Now Soupolos is suing Maus for breach of contract in an effort to get his money back, but Maus refuses to give it up because he said he did not guarantee conception, but only that he would give an honest effort.
2 comments:
I don't know whether it is a true story or not. But, it just goes to show the "sinfulness" running in our society.
We are going through the old testament in our church this year and we ran across this verse in our studies last week:
Judges 21:25 - "In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes".
The result then was corruption from within Israel and oppression from without.
That is where today's world is. The world does not recognize God as king and the world is "doing what is right in their own eyes". Not much has changed with "fallen man" as we have progressed through the ages.
Possible good results:
1. "God uses our lack of faith to prove our sin and weakness to drive us back to HIM!"
2. "God has patience and is willing to extend grace and mercy to HIS people"
Maybe this will bring these two families around to God. Many times in scripture God has used women who could not bare children to become pregnant for HIS purpose and glory.
I don't know either but I'm leaning toward crying/being upset that the world is like that...
And above all...if you're going to pay a NEIGHBOR $2500 to TRY to impregnate her.........why not just go and pay at the sperm bank????
I'm confused.........
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