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Originally posted by Jameson Teqkilla
From a moral standpoint, what exactly is wrong with fornication?
Who does it hurt if two consenting adults have sex? It doesn't hurt anyone.
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What my pastor told me. Brace youself
Selfishness and a possible child. Basically every act of sex-unless in rare cases such as when the woman has had a hysterectomy-CAN result in a child. The chance may be very small, but it is there. Not only can condoms, diaphragms, and birth control pills fail, but so can vasectomies and tubal ligations. Even people declared "sterile" sometimes turn out not to be sterile (at least not permanently). So except for a few rare instances, there is no sex in which you can be guaranteed of not producing a child. There is basically always a chance. And if a child does result from that act of sex outside marriage, the child will pay a price. For my moment of pleasure a child may pay a price all his/her life. God can do (and does do) amazing and wonderful things in families where there is a single, unwed parent or where a baby was born before the parents were married. But things will still be harder for the child (and the parent) than they would've been had the child been born with married, Christian parents. It is wrong to risk the well-being of an innocent human being (the child) for the sake of obtaining immediate pleasure-physical or emotional. It may be hard to resist-this sexual temptation--but to give in to it is ultimately selfish. And a chief sufferer here will be an innocent child.
