Not far off at all from a kabbalistic idea that the true marital union includes a physical, emotional, and spiritual union. When drawing a new soul into the world, it requires focus on all levels.
Furthermore, the degradation of our recent generations (violence, utter lack of respect for elders, etc) is an outcome of reproduction as purely a sperm donor and a baby mama.
So the religious (interesting to parse the thoughts and percentages of Catholics VS Protestants who agree or disagree with what I wrote) the religious may see things similarly as me and the cleric, while the secular nationalists probably want to disparage anything from the mouth of a Muslim.