“I know perfectly well that people have sex before marriage “certainly more so nowadays at a time when mores have become so loose that even conservatives have given up on them and joined the opposition in celebrating uncontrolled sexual behavior. “
Speaking for myself, I believe that they sinned in sleeping together before marriage, but they did not compound their sin by refusing to take responsibility for it.
I celebrate their decision to marry and raise their daughter legitimately.
“Speaking for myself, I believe that they sinned in sleeping together before marriage, but they did not compound their sin by refusing to take responsibility for it.
I celebrate their decision to marry and raise their daughter legitimately.”
Well stated...I would agree.
I don't call it sin, but I don't think it's the right thing to do. It's kind of like drinking and driving. When I was young (and the laws were much more lax) my friends and I would get shit-faced drunk then get behind the wheel of a car and drive all over creation, risking our own lives and those of others. Only by the grace of God did nothing ever happen to me. Would anyone think that because I had done that I could counsel my children that getting drunk and driving was anything other than reckless, stupid and even immoral? Of course not! Was I a hypocrite? Of course! Did I care that I was a hypocrite? No! :-)
It's good that those young people did the right thing, and of course we hope that everything turns out well for them. Frequently, however, and perhaps most of the time, things don't turn out so well (take, for example, Palin's older daughter). In those cases everyone suffers, but it's usually the child who suffers most.