[litany_of_lies]

BTW, what the heck is a Cherusker? Or am I better off not knowing?

"A dating couple so filled with lust that they cannot control their passions is not going to free themselves from sin by marrying - they will only heighten their sin by abusing the Sacrament. Lust is a sin regardless of whether it is inside or outside of marriage, because it is a disorder placing pleasures above right reason and good."

I don't disagree with this, but I believe there are couples who hasten their marriage because they want to have sex inside of marriage and eliminate the temptation of having it outside of marriage. Are they making the decision because of lust or geniune love? Only they and God know. A prerequsite is obviously openness to the possibility of procreation from Day 1. If we buy into the idea that the grace of the sacrament and Holy Spirit can have a gradual transformative effect on such a couple open to their work, this would appear to be a righteous path.

Or not?

[Hermann the Cherusker]

You'll find more information by googling Hermann the Cherusker than I'll be able to provide you. Briefly, he was a German Prince of the Cherusceri tribe who defeated Varus at the Battle of Teutoburger Wald, AD 9.