Sex before marriage
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Sex before marriage has been a controversial topic for many ages and many societies. The Catholic Church, like many religions opposes it, but many Catholics choose to ignore this because they believe in changing with the times and keeping up with the rest of society.
A survey of teenagers has found that most Christians disagree with the Church's moral values. The research was conducted by Reverend Professor Leslie Francis of Bangor University and published in The Fourth R For The Third Millennium, a book on religious education. Questionnaires were completed by 15,000 teenagers between the ages of 13 and 15 years old asking them to state their religion and attitudes to personal, family and social teachings. The results state that 85% of Catholic teenagers interviewed didn't think sex outside of marriage was wrong whereas 49% of the Muslim teenagers agreed that it was wrong. These results demonstrate a significant gap between traditional teaching on a major moral issue and the beliefs of the younger generations.(Francis, L. The Fourth R For The Third Millennium, p25)
The main reason given by the Catholic Church and most Christian Churches against premarital sex is that it is immoral because the Bible says so.
The Bible specifies that it is wrong - "It is God's will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality...