This is part of someone else's post;
"we had a controversy recently related to this. Our last pastor (a great guy, a Harvard grad and a Ph.D.) said he would not marry persons with one address (they could live together and fornicate all they wished, they just could not flaunt it) and some condemned him for intolerance! In my college teaching we cover the health problems of promiscuous sexual behavior ( it's a major killer) and the problem is as bad in churched as unchurched people. Morals just are not taught in many churches, thus members end up with a large number of broken marriages and all kind of health problems."
In this post living together is equated with "promiscuous sexual behavior. I am not easily offended.... but this really bothers me. Promiscuous means, in this instance; Indiscriminate in sexual relations... or possibly; lacking standards of selection.
Well thanks a bunch! I lived with my mate for 5 years before we tied the knot. I was never indiscriminate... I am a one man kind of woman. We were, always were and still are, exclusive, steady, monogamous. I had no more chance coming down with some deadly form of STD than if we had been married. It is ridiculous to assert that unmarried partnership=promiscuity. And insulting.
And that's my 2 cents on that.
~Witch