If you ask me all this fuss is just more reason why, “You get married and STAY married.” A culture of serial monogamy is not much better than serial anonymous hook ups, maybe even worse.
All sins compromise in one fashion or another.
And yet we need something even more important than “principles.” We need a living Lord. Without that, we don’t have any power by which to get the “principles” to stick in our lives and societies.
The way America was founded is much more dependent upon Christian principles than the more secular states of the world. We have vigorous talk about rights that don’t make much sense if they are selfish things, but make all the sense in creation if they are means by which we may serve God.