(December 1, 2017 at 8:49 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Joods, it goes along with our understanding that human sexuality has 2 functional purposes that go together - to procreate, and to form a mutual bond with the person you have pledged to spend your life with (to help keep you together through the emotional bonding effects of the hormone oxytocin). Healthy, intact families are extremely important to society because they are the best environment to raising the next generation of people, and sexuality is meant to serve that purpose in those 2 ways.
Taken outside of those 2 functions, sex has caused a lot of harm to society. From rape as the absolute worst, to STD's, over population, unwanted/out of wedlock pregnancies, to men and women feeling used.
None of this is to say premarital sex should be illegal. And as I've said before, I'm behind giving gay couples all the same benefits/rights. Seperation of church and state makes sense.
But as far as sexual morality is concerned, thats why we believe it is best left reserved for the bonds of marriage as a mutual self giving act between one man and one woman.
Got to say if marriage is to be a necessary yoke for heterosexual people who want to have sex, it is good to see the gays required to bear the same burden. For myself, I'm pro marriage and I speak in favor of it encouragingly to my younger relatives. But I'm just fine with anyone who declines marriage. We have straight friends who lived together as a couple for more than thirty years but did not marry until after gay marriage became legal in California. I'm also madly in favor of childlessness or adoption.
