e into one. Each covenant that God made is very sacred and they all have signs in order to show the sacrament. The sign of the sacrament of marriage is sexual intercourse. This means that if a couple that is unmarried has sex, they are taking place in a sacred sacrament called marriage. Even though they are not seen as a married couple in the eyes of the Law they are seen as married by the Church. Having sex completes the covenant; the couple is married and is part of the covenant with God after performing sexual intercourse with the partner. When a couple performs sexual intercourse, they have entered into a covenant with God that they can never break. So if you have premarital sex and then marry another person and have sex with them, you are cheating on your first lover, who you are still in a covenant with. Premarital sex is a serious moral issue confronting college students. Sexual temptations do exist in high school, but once in college, students are more cut off from familial restrictions and parish supports. They are confronted with peer pressure such as "everyone is doing it," and are exposed to some teachers who are not religious. Let’s face it, college life neither understands nor supports the value of chastity. Some student’s fall into promiscuous behavior without even realizing, at first, with out knowing how far they have gone. For most college student’s sex is a source of pleasure and a release, not relating sex to marriage or love in any way. Many students do however eventually grow out of this stage of wanting premarital sex but by then it is too late and they have already committed the sin. Many students have to drop out of college due to a pregnancy that developed from premarital sex.Other students, however, may find someone special, perhaps the person they hope to marry, and feel that their "love" legitimizes premarital sex within a monogamous relationship. Like never before, students in ...
