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Q: I found your article "Sex Before Marriage: What’s the Big Deal?" (July-August 2002) extremely disheartening. I think you portray sex very negatively. I completely understand that your religion does not believe that sex before marriage is what God intended. However, I think what God intended to give people is free choice. That powerful aspect of humanity is what gives people the right to choose what they believe is best for them.
Furthermore, I don’t like the way you twist the Bible around. It was written many years ago, and who are we to bring these ancient words into the 21st century? I think that people can get a lot out of the Bible, but it is not right to put your translation into it. I think that if your religion does not believe in sex before marriage you should learn to write about sexuality in a way that might not scare people. You write about it as though it were a disease that someone might catch. I think this is a horrible message. If you were not required to be celibate, would you have sex outside of marriage? I believe the answer would be yes, simply because you are human.
L.G., Internet
A: You are quite right to state that humanity does indeed have freedom of choice and that individuals have the option "to choose what they believe is best for them." God created men and women in His own image (Genesis 1:26-27), conferring on them the gift of choice. In one sense the whole Bible is the story of the choices humanity has made and how those choices have most often turned out badly.
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