Posted on 04/28/2007 8:38:55 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
An American couple going out for two years have enjoyed their first kiss - at their wedding.
Katie and Tim McAfee agreed to a sex ban and no kissing before they wed. The couple from Bismarck, North Dakota, are devout Christians.
They prayed with their parents for God's strength before going out on dates.
Tim, 25, touched his 24-year-old wife's lips for the first time at Bismarck's Evangel Temple.
Tim said his kiss with Katie was great but added: "I don't have anything to compare it with."
Katie's sister, Margie, 21, and her new husband Nadir Torres, 22 also took the same vow and were wed at the same ceremony minutes later.
All four Christians wanted to uphold biblical law on sexual purity and were worried even kissing each other could "light a fire," reports the Bismarck Tribune.
The girl's parents, Pam and Larry Rehn, prayed with the couples before letting them leave for a date. Both their daughters took a covenant of purity when they turned 13 and were given a purity ring to wear.
Pam said the newlyweds were "nervous" when the time came to spend their first night together after the wedding celebrations.
She told her new sons to be gentle with her daughters, then watched them walk home. "The girls kept looking back," Pam added.
Wow, what if that first kiss really sucked?
Congrats to him. He now holds the Guiness World record of having the longest sustained pair of blue balls.
This is so sweet.
“Good for them...”
I agree. I gave up my virginity when I was in my early 20’s (which is alot longer than many I know!). Of course I want it back, but it is too late. I believe in God’s grace, but have no problem lamenting my loss and being happy for these couples at the same time.
God’s ways are wise.
I am thankful that there are still at least two people with the integrity to do this...
Good for them.
I do question the public nature of their situation.
Jesus said, “Let not your right hand know what your left hand does.” I don’t recall him recommending contacting the press to brag about your virginity and holiness.
Now it’s ‘Katie bar the door’ YEEEHHAAAWWW!!
"Fundamentalist" Christianity does often consider kissing to be for married people (to each other), while mainstream society has gotten "looser" and looser on personal propriety (OPINION).
Can’t think of one good Christian counselor who says one should wait until the wedding to kiss your intended spouse.
yes, good for them, but I just can’t imagine not kissing my husband before we married. Yikes, lol! Of course when i got married my husband and I were already behaving badly. Shame on us. But seriously, he and I talk about it all the time. If we could go back in time we would have waited till marriage to have sex, but God is still good to us regardless and we love each other dearly. But it is neat to see people who can go into their marriage purely.
I know Sean Hannity and his wife waited till they were married to have sex and it was a really hard year for the both of them. I also have a friend who’s mother was 17 when she got married and didn’t even know what sex was. When her husband started making the moves on her on their honeymoon she freaked out. She remembers her mother telling her right before she walked down the isle that her husband was going to do something things to her that night and she needed to just let him. UGH, she let him allright and it took a long time before she got over it.
I think it is good to wait for sex until marriage, but just because someone waits for it, doesn’t mean it is going to be wonderful that first few times, and you can still have trouble in your marriage because of it. But when it comes down to it God tells us to wait and wait we should. To late for me, lol!
I suppose they don’t test drive a car before they buy it either.
Yeah, I’d demand a security deposit on that honeymoon suite.
It should. If it doesn't light a fire then this is not the person for you. Doesn't mean you throw them down on the floor and have your way with them.
The moment I kissed hubby to be I knew that he was the one. Had know him for two years as a friend before then but with that kiss we knew there was something much more then friendship that had been growing between us.
On the other hand I had another relationship that ended at the kiss. We both agreed that no matter how compatible we were as friends there was just no spark. We are still friends.
On the other hand I think it is wonderful that they wanted to remain pure until marriage I just think they went a little far.
Later pingout.
How would they know?
Any puns intentional.
Mrs. Whiskers and I were both virgins when we got married, lo the long ages ago.
We have since made up for it many times with compounded interest. :-)
Cheers!
Cheers!
Don't go there! ;-)
Cheers!
Yeah LOL.. 500 exploding rubbers would be bad.
This is nuts....
I don’t know, I think a photo of the couple might go a long way to explain some of this. Let’s not pretend this is sweet, it’s abnormal.
I think this is so cool. Neither one has to worry about previous out of wedlock kids, AIDS, syphillis etc.
They would say to themselves "that sucked" and decide not to do that again.
hahahahaha.
Too funny!! I went to school there from 1983-85 after leaving the Army.
When my intended and I decided to marry (and neither of us youngsters at the time) we soon realized (I mean in the first 1/2 hour of our engagement) that if we wanted to wait until marriage, the engagement had to be a short one. We became betrothed around midnight, and at 7 the next morning were married up near Lake Tahoe...
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The fault was the mothers for not educating her daughter SOMEHOW of what sex was about.
They’d know. Somethings are just innate.
me horny, can’t wait that long.
Years ago I remember reading Loretta Lynn's autobiography. She got married at around 13 and she, too, didn't know what sex was. She thought babies came from the cabbage patch. She had no idea what her husband was doing to her on their wedding night, and she had several kids before she finally figured out the connection.
Whether they're "good" or not is debatable, but there's at least one married couple going around to church youth groups spreading this message. My wife's nephew was all about not kissing his girlfriend (now fiancee) after seeing them, although I suspect they might have fallen off that particular wagon in the years since.
One gets the distinct sense that neither of them has a clue about what they're going to do on their wedding night and (according to my wife, who's talked to her) the girl seems deeply weirded out or simply delusional about the whole idea.
I agree. My friend told me that right before the wedding her mom wispered in her ear that her groom was going to do some things to her and she needed to just lay there and let him.
UGH, I could never let my kids get married and not tell them about sex if they had no idea what it was. Talk about cruel!
If yu are thinking of Joshua Harris, who wrote "I Kissed Dating Goodbye", Townsend and Cloud, as well as James Dobson, have a dim view of his views.
I find that weird. I mean come on that is just creepy. I can understand saving yourself for marriage but no kissing? I can just see these two as being very immature especially for 24 and 25. I would love to know how they turn out twenty-five years from now, but of course we will never know.
he must not have met you yet
mad greet carl
Thats a little extreme. Actually, more than a little.
But if that was their choice, so be it.
What if hubby had discovered that wifey had breath like a cat litter box? Or maybe she discovers he is a lousy kisser?
Good for them, but a tad extreme.
Best of luck to the couple though.
Wow...I understand being sheltered and marrying too young...but that’s pretty incredible!
shame on you.
Not even a kiss? Abstaining is fine, but no kisses? Hmmmmm.
youve met carl too ‘eh?
That would suck to find out one of them is a lousy kisser after it’s “too late...”
Breath that smells like a cat box, sloppy tongue, dry cracked lips, sitting there doing nothing...it’s not hard.
Or that she’s really a HE!
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