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Law of Chastity

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, casually called the Mormon Church, takes a firm, unwavering stand regarding the issue of chastity. The stand taken by the Church upholds not only the Ten Commandments and the Gospel of Christ, but constant latter-day revelation as well. The Law of Chastity is an important aspect of the Latter-day Saint view of marriage and the family as holy, sacred institutions. (See the Proclamation to the World). The Law of Chastity is simply this: sexual relations belong within the bonds of legal matrimony. This implies that there should be no sexual relations before marriage, and after marriage there should only be sexual relations between husband and wife. Marriage, by definition, is a legal union between a male and a female:

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, casually called the Mormon Church, takes a firm, unwavering stand regarding the issue of chastity. The stand taken by the Church upholds not only the Ten Commandments and the Gospel of Christ, but constant latter-day revelation as well. The Law of Chastity is an important aspect of the Latter-day Saint view of marriage and the family as holy, sacred institutions. (See the Proclamation to the World). The Law of Chastity is simply this: sexual relations belong within the bonds of legal matrimony. This implies that there should be no sexual relations before marriage, and after marriage there should only be sexual relations between husband and wife. Marriage, by definition, is a legal union between a male and a female: The physical relationship between a husband and a wife is ordained of God for the procreation of children and for the expression of love within a marriage: "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh" (Genesis 2:24).