Part of the problem in talking about the legality of sex is the confusion we have between criminality and immorality. I don't know if in some Utopian Theocracy they should be the same, but in the world where we live, we have some form of democracy, and that means that while different people will have different views on morality, we all have to live under the same set of laws.

That's where we start to find a discrepancy in the laws about sex. Most of us Christians believe sex is wrong outside marriage. But the Law says it's legal. Thus, it's not illegal to do something that's immoral. On the other hand, most of us Christians think it's perfectly proper to pray, in schools, say, on the right occasion. But in the United States, for instance, it's illegal.

Thus, right behaviour is not identical to legal behaviour.

And I could continue thinking about the morality of bad laws, but I think I've said enough for now.

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