premarital sex
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Along with general Mormon rules based on religious scriptures like a ban on premarital sex and drinking tea and coffee, missionaries aren't allowed to stay out late or watch TV or movies.
From BBC • Feb. 27, 2023
When behaviors such as eating meat, cigarette smoking, premarital sex or religious schooling become moralized, they elicit powerful moral emotions, institutional action against the behavior, and even censure or condemnation from others.
From Scientific American • Mar. 2, 2021
They pray before meals, abstain from premarital sex and call up Bible verses on their mobile phones with the ease of sports fans checking the latest scores.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2020
She told Harvard undergraduates in 1982 to abstain from premarital sex and frequently denounced abortion, among other occasions, in her Nobel acceptance speech in 1979.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 1, 2016
Responses on the acceptance of church teachings on issues like birth control, premarital sex and gay unions helped to form the so-called Instrumentum Laboris, or working paper of the synod.
From New York Times • Oct. 6, 2014
