Affairs Case

http://www.smLike a python who holds its victim in a death grip, sexual promiscuity has wrapped itself around our bodies,

minds, and spirits. The serpent "lust" has struck us in our moral jugular, and its venom has permeated every artery,

vein, and capillary of our society, poisoning our collective soul. From preachers to presidents, crack-addict

prostitutes to Hollywood whores, effeminate sodomites to Wall Street playboys, common housewives to everyday

Joes, promiscuous teenagers to perverse child molesters--sexual immorality is so rampant that we no longer shudder

when we see it in the media or read it in the newspaper.

Recent public scandals abound, and the list is as repulsive as it is long: a female air force pilot forced to resign her

commission because of an extra -marital affair with a fellow officer; a presidential aid and Frank Gifford caught on

camera, one with a prostitute, the other with a stewardess; an army general who, because of adultery with a civilian

staff member, lost the opportunity of a lifetime to be head of the joint chiefs of staff; another promiscusous Kennedy

caught, this time with his baby sitter; Navy and Air Force cadets who plot murder in a sordid teenage sex triangle;

accusations of lewd behavior against a President who can't remember but whose lawyer is willing to cut a deal;

televangelists who prostitute the gospel publicly while prostituting themselves privately. And we can add to these

sensational cases the less public but equally wicked and ugly, day-to-day reality that fornication runs rampant in

every city and state and at every level of society.

Fornication refers to any divinely forbidden sexual act. In the Bible, God sharply condemns all sexual immorality,

including incest, pre-marital sex, homosexuality, bestiality, bigamy, and polygamy. But our focus is upon one

special category of sexual fornication--adultery. Adultery is extra-marital fornication, sexual intercourse outside the

boundaries of the marriage covenant. God lists adultery seventh among the ten commandments and first among the

Levitical catalogue of sexual sins. Moses' law required that a man or woman who violated the commandment "thou

shalt not commit adultery" would be subject