People often speak and act as if being
"in love" gave them the right to break a law of God by engaging
in extramarital sexual intercourse, but such activity is a product of sexual
passion, not of love. (Coitus is perfectly legitimate within the bounds of marriage,
since it furthers the biblical primary purpose of marriage, which is
procreation; in fact, the very word "matrimony" derives partly from the
Latin for "mother." Note that
the biblical secondary purpose of marriage is to provide a benign means of
satisfying the sexual desire that adults and adolescents feel.) Love—true love—is no justification for fornication.