Posted on 01/08/2014 10:23:50 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Ninety-four percent of Americans believe that "being married and having sex with someone else" is morally wrong, the highest figure on a list of eight actions that CNN asked 1,010 adults to ethically classify earlier this month.
"Cheating on your taxes" followed adultery with 90 percent of Americans classifying it as morally wrong. "Having an abortion," "engaging in homosexual behavior" and "looking at a pornographic magazine" came in at 57, 50, and 46 percent, respectively.
Glenn Stanton, the director for Family Formation Studies at Focus on the Family, explained Americans' lack of consensus on what made an action morally wrong by arguing that they lacked a comprehensive ethical framework with regards to how they made their own decisions and evaluated others.
"It's an emotional or gut reaction," Stanton told The Christian Post. "There just seems to be less consistent moral thinking all the way through in terms of a general moral narrative that people have."
"It's kind of a buffet mentality: 'Well, that seems fine to me, that doesn't seem problematic to me,' rather than having a moral system or moral code that people have and hold and run everything through it," he added.
Stanton said he was not surprised that adultery was rated as highly because it is consistent with a philosophy that called for "consent" and "nobody getting hurt."
"It's our biggest sexual ethic today. If two people consent to it than it's fine, regardless of what that might be," said Stanton.
But adultery violated this principle, he said.
"In cheating on your spouse, the two cheaters may be consenting, but the cheated upon-spouse is, in a way, a participant and they are not consenting," Stanton added.
Stanton, who wrote a book about cohabitation in 2011, The Ring Makes All the Difference, was not surprised that only 32 percent of Americans believed it was morally wrong to live "with someone when you're not married."
"I've heard older parents say [to their children] 'Why don't you guys just move in together and see how this is going to work out?' Seventy-five percent of cohabiters have some intention of marrying. They are kind of cohabiting out of the idea of 'let's test this relationship,'" said Stanton. "Rather than a moral thing, they're seeing this as a pragmatic thing."
Americans showed the least judgment toward "drinking alcohol beverages" and "smoking marijuana," which was legalized at the beginning of the year in Colorado. Only 15 and 35 percent of Americans, respectively, agreed that those actions were morally wrong.
ORC International conducted the survey for CNN from Jan. 3-5. The sampling error poll, which was administered over telephone, is plus or minus three percentage points.
They all weight the same to God.
Because it is only when one keeps the commandments of the Jesus Christ the Lord's comforter will reside in us.
John 14 Jesus speaks of many mansions—He says that He is the way, the truth, and the life and that to see Him is to see the Father—He promises the first and second Comforters.
15 ¶If ye love me, keep my commandments.
16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
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23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
24 He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father’s which sent me.
25 These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you.
26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
28 Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.
If Godhead are all one why is the Father greater than his only begotten Son Jesus Christ?
I always read all are one in mind.
How can one be keeping the Lord's commandments when one is always engaging in Faultfinding, figure pointing, undermine ;
Romans 15
5 Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:
6 That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
7 Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God.
Now we too are commanded to be one in mind as Jesus is one in Mind with the Father The Father is greater than Jesus and Jesus is greater this his followers yet we are all ONE.
Strange that people don’t realize that a third Person IS involved, when two “consenting adults” sin. That’s the Almighty God and His wrath. To the extent that it’s only them involved, only they’ll pay the price for those sins. But if a nation encourages their sin, then the whole nation will pay the price for those sins.
THAT’S the part of the equation that our Founders understood, and that’s why our laws were indistinguishable from God’s commands. That wasn’t some accident. And we were richly blessed for our collective obedience. But our leaders and our people are too stupid to see that obedience = blessings and disobedience = wrath. THAT’S how our formerly rich and prosperous nation is teetering on the brink of bankruptcy. That’s not an accident either.
Well said.
He also told slaves to obey their masters, didn’t He?
I thought adultry was also having sex before marriage?
Guess not. I’m so relieved
RE: Strange that people don’t realize that a third Person IS involved, when two “consenting adults” sin. That’s the Almighty God and His wrath
The Chinese long ago know about this ( and they were not Christians ).
Their wise men would say that there were 4 entities that know -— Heaven, Hell, and two consenting adults.
So, this is not just a “Christian” thing. This is common wisdom passed down from above to humanity, which the moderns are forgetting.
RE: I thought adultry was also having sex before marriage?
Having sex with someone other than your spouse after marriage is adultery. Adultery violates the bond of the marriage union.
Fornication is a more general term usually referring to any kind of sexual misconduct or sexual impurity outside of the bounds of marriage.
Both are condemned by Scripture.
Matthew 15:19:
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies ... (KJV)
I don't agree with either form of marriage, but facts is facts and while he's in Deseret/Utah it was not illegal to be a bigamist. That was a huge point of v\contention and required a change of LDS rules before Utah would be admitted to the union in the late 19th Century.
Little did we know how ahead of the game they where. If only they had rewarded sodomy they would have been ready for the 21st century.
everything goes except decency and standards these days
I am not so sure that all sin weights the same with God. I would suggest that taking the Lords name after striking ones thumb with a hammer is less offensive to God than the mass slaughter of a room of children. If not, I have a lot of sinning to catch up on.
Polygamy was a well established form of marriage for many societies throughout history.
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That didn’t make it right..
and it certainly was never Biblical..
HUH??
Your GOD does not do what he said he'd do.
If your Living Prophet® speaks for GOD, then WHY doesn't your god do what your prophet said he'd do?
No; that is fornication: sex between un-marrieds.
Flee from it:
1 Corinthians 6:18
Proverbs 6:32
The public schools have done a good job indoctrinating the hypothecated meat puppets.
But both homosexuality and abortion lead to adultery. So is this really an honest look?
I cant believe the things we dwell on here at times. What am I doing?
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