We’re using some of these, but gotta say, some of them are really out there…

United Methodist Church

Though the flesh in you `lust against the Spirit’, you may still be a
child of God; but if you `walk after the flesh,’ you are a child of
the devil.

–John Wesley, 1703-1791

Roman Catholic Church

The bubbling impulses of puberty befogged and obscured my heart so
that it could not see the difference between love’s serenity and
lust’s darkness. – St. Augustine, 354-430

Buddhism

The Wise man should avoid promiscuity as if it were a burning charcoal
pit.

–Siddhattha Guatama Buddha, 563-483 BCE

Mormonism

If any man espouse a virgin, and desire to espouse another, and the
first give her consent…and they have vowed to no other man, then
is he justified.

–Doctrine and Covenants, 132:61 Southern Baptist Convention

We affirm God’s plan for marriage and sexual intimacy – one man,
and one woman, for life. Homosexuality is not a “valid alternative
lifestyle.”

— Official position statement

Unitarian-Universalitsts

Homophobia is a sin to Unitarian Universalists, not homosexuality.

—Church spokesperson Janet Hayes

Episcopal Church

To lovers I put now sure this case:
Which of their loves does get them grace?

–King Henry VIII, 1491-1547

Islam

Your women are your fields, so go into your fields whichever way you
want

— Prophet Mohammed, 570-632

Reform Judaism

Given the indubitable fact that extramarital relations have become
common in our day, can Judaism give them its approval? The answer is
decidedly negative.

— Official position statement

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