From: cprice@treehut.waffle.atl.ga.us (Clyde Price)
Newsgroups: talk.abortion
Subject: Re: THE IMPLICATIONS OF ABORTION ON OUR SOCIETY
Date: 15 Apr 92 15:53:39 GMT
Organization: Clyde's TreeHut BBS

gordons@coopsol.com (Gordon Storga) writes:
> Be proud of it.  Just don't come in here and tell us what sex is all about
> when you've never experienced it first hand.
> ...                     [deletion included a passing reference to Deity]
> I don't understand this.  If you have met the woman of your dreams and you
> are going to marry her anyway, then why wait?  You are not being
> promiscuous when you have sex with your wife, are you?  Does she magically
> become some other being after the wedding vows?
> 
> Just stop telling people who have had sex, and who are having sex on a
> regular basis, what the sex act is all about, *especially* since you've
> never had sex yourself.  Look, I've never been sky-diving - does that mean
> I should be lecturing those that have on the proper way to land, when to
> open their chutes, how fold a chute, etcetera?
> 
> Be celibate, just don't tell the rest of us to be celibate.

Gordon,
        "Promiscuous" usually means having multiple casual sex partners,
and certainly jumping the gun with your fiancee wouldn't constitute
promiscuity, but it would still be _fornication_.  The woman doesn't
"magically become some other being after the wedding vows", but she does
become something very important: a WIFE.  Sex is then covered within the
marriage covenant and the previously virgin _wife_, although no longer
virgin, can still be considered _chaste_.  "Chasitity" means "no sex
outside of the marriage covenant", and implies virginity until marriage
and sex with nobody else after marriage.

        THE reason I advocate sexual abstinence for single folks is
because I'm a Bible-believing Christian, and our Creator has revealed
in the Scriptures that monogamous marriage is what we were designed for.
We would never have figured this out on our own, and the only way I can
argue for it in naturalistic terms is that in a society where people
only had sex within marriage, sexually transmitted diseases would be
almost unknown.
        (I believe that there are many other benefits to society of
faithful, stable marriages and families, but those would open other
presuppositional questions.)

        I do advocate abstinence from sex for unmarried people, and
sexual fidelity within marriage, but that's not my main focus.  My
"preaching" is toward a view of life and the world under the Lordship of
Jesus Christ as found in the Bible.  I'm not just after people's gonads,
I'm after their total beings, to bring them whole-heartedly to my Lord.
My "message" is not a catalog of obligations and prohibitions (even
though these are there), but a joyous invitation to ABUNDANT LIFE in the
presence of the loving God-who-really-is.

        I'M NOT HERE (1. on earth, 2.in this forum) TO BANG PEOPLE OVER
THE HEAD for being sexually active, or even for advocating/having
abortions, but to articulate a Christian world-view and invite people to
my Lord.  In this forum, my focus is the advocacy of the unborn human
and an _appeal_ to "love your neighbor" by _not_killing_ her/him,
even if s/he hasn't been born yet.



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