My religious views are simply my own. As for Marriage, it is nothing more than a legal contract between consenting adults. "Religious Marriage" is nothing more than a ceremony based on whichever type of religion is being used, however, they are not considered married until they have a state issued marriage license.
As for sexual behavior, no religion has the right to legislate their morality into our government and to dictate the lives of other adults. However, they are free to practice their own beliefs within the confines of their personal lives.
Sex & Religion: What restrictions do your religious beliefs place on sexual behavior?
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Some religious beliefs have very strict rules when it comes to sex -- forbidding sex before marriage, forbidding homosexual relationships, and even after marriage there are some religions that continue to govern sexual behavior.
What restrictions do your religious beliefs place on sexual behavior – and how stringently are they enforced?
Sex is sacred, spiritual.
No lying or cheating. Nothing abusive. No domestic violence. No mental abuse. No Madonna-Whore complex. No spiritual or religious abuse. No sexual abuse. No financial abuse. No withholding opportunities for medical care, education or advancement, etc. Compassion matters. Mutual courtesy and respect are the rule, a cornerstone. Functional virtues and ethics that make family members functional in and out of the home matter very much. Mates are judged by their actions, choice of words and ability to communicate (or lack thereof) rather than by any labels like black, white, rich, poor, homosexual, religious identity and so on. Marriage and all romantic or sexual acts within must between consenting adults and if one objects only for the other to persist, it's considered abusive. Decisions affecting the marriage should be informed, joint decisions. Homosexuals should be able to legally marry. Whether group or monogamous marriage, fidelity is still a virtue of major focus (it's called polyfidelity for polygamous marriages). Sexist polygyny or polyandry forms of marriage are abusive so they're out; they're sexist. Both same sex and group marriage should be legal.
A major premise is that all this talk about equality and ethics mat...
Sex is sacred, spiritual.
No lying or cheating. Nothing abusive. No domestic violence. No mental abuse. No Madonna-Whore complex. No spiritual or religious abuse. No sexual abuse. No financial abuse. No withholding opportunities for medical care, education or advancement, etc. Compassion matters. Mutual courtesy and respect are the rule, a cornerstone. Functional virtues and ethics that make family members functional in and out of the home matter very much. Mates are judged by their actions, choice of words and ability to communicate (or lack thereof) rather than by any labels like black, white, rich, poor, homosexual, religious identity and so on. Marriage and all romantic or sexual acts within must between consenting adults and if one objects only for the other to persist, it's considered abusive. Decisions affecting the marriage should be informed, joint decisions. Homosexuals should be able to legally marry. Whether group or monogamous marriage, fidelity is still a virtue of major focus (it's called polyfidelity for polygamous marriages). Sexist polygyny or polyandry forms of marriage are abusive so they're out; they're sexist. Both same sex and group marriage should be legal.
A major premise is that all this talk about equality and ethics matters because it affects how marriage partners bond in the bedroom and living room. If something's wrong between partners, they know it and it runs its interference. We're holistic beings.
I choose monogamous marriage and prefer it to be for life ... in sickness and in health and all that. Basically, I'm old fashioned with a twist of egalitarianism.
Sex before marriage is permissible if sensible fitting guidelines are likewise applied. Be most excellent to each other.
No popes or dogmatic churches here to lord over the bedroom, living room, kitchen, yards or vehicles. Self-enforced, on one's honor through thick and thin.
The only rule about sex I believe everybody should abide by is to always have your partner's consent, whatever you do.
only to flee from sexual immorality
So long as the participants are freely warned about the risks
along with mutual respect.
I paraphrase Trudeau:
"What consenting adults do in reasonable privacy is nobody else's concern"
So..yeah. And i never want to get married.
EDIT:
My mom's JW. Nothing gay/lesbian. Marriage only with other JW. No interactions with nonJW pp.
I was raised catholic, and i've been to baptist(christian) church. No gay, no lesbian, marriage before sex. Be married under the church. Not enforced quite as strongly as JW do.
I don't see this as a restriction, more as honouring the true purpose of sex - and therefore making it SO MUCH BETTER!
This is a little controversial, though, with some people. In the Biblical times, to take a wife, a man had only to take her to his house and have sex,-consummate the marriage. The formal marriage of this age is a law or statute,-ordinance-whatever imposed by local and federal authorities. The same with divorce. By the same token, Jesus said to 'render unto Caesar, etc...'which means to obey whatever law you are under.
But, some people now live together for many years and never see a need to formally marry. In their eyes they are married and, for me, I can't see how to object to that.