6. YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY.
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"You
have heard that it was said, 'You shall not commit adultery.' But I say
to you that every one who looks at a woman lustfully has already
committed adultery with her in his heart." "Nothing outside a man can make him 'unclean' by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a man that makes him 'unclean.'" (Mark 7:15-16)
"'Love
is the fundamental and innate vocation of every human being' By creating
the human being man and woman, God gives personal dignity equally to the
one and the other. Each of them, man and woman, should acknowledge and
accept his sexual identity. Christ is the model of chastity. Every
baptized person is called to lead a chaste life, each according to his
particular state of life. Chastity means the integration of sexuality
within the person. It includes an apprenticeship in self-mastery. Among
the sins gravely contrary to chastity are fornication, pornography, and
homosexual practices. The covenant which spouses have freely entered
into entails faithful love. It imposes on them the obligation to keep
their marriage indissoluble. Fecundity is a good, a gift and an end of
marriage. By giving life, spouses participate in God's fatherhood. The
regulation of births represents one of the aspects of responsible
fatherhood and motherhood. Legitimate intentions on the part of the
spouse do not justify recourse to morally unacceptable means (for
example, direct sterilization or contraception). Adultery, divorce,
polygamy and free union are grave offences against the dignity of
marriage."
""But at the beginning of creation God 'made them male and female.' 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.' So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate." When they were in the house again, the disciples asked Jesus about this. He answered, 'Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her. And if she divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery."" (Mark 10:6-12)
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