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http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/04/02/just_roommates/?page=1  This is an interesting story… Make sure you read the entire story. You’ll be absolutely horrified.Note that the story says, “at the urging of student activists…” Since when did they become experts on what is best for them. I remember when I was in college, and I didn’t know a thing. OhI thought i did, but I graduated and got married, and boy did my mind get blown away. I was an idiot back then! Oh yeah, and I love this part - “While the trend predictably prompts prurient thoughts, most coed roommates are just friends, students and college officials say.” Right, and they’re just hormones pulsing through your body… no big deal. “Among Millennial students, whether it’s race, gender, or nationality, the borders are coming down,” said James Baumann of the Association of College and University Housing Officers. “The lines just aren’t there anymore.” Actually James, the lines are there, you just don’t care enough about them anymore. They’re not important to you anymore.”(Jeffrey) Chang (Clark University Student) persuaded administrators over the past two years to adopt gender-neutral housing and co-founded the National Student Genderblind Campaign, which promotes the rooming option at colleges across the country. The campaign contends that traditional rooming policies wrongly assume that men and women cannot live together non-sexually and “needlessly reinforce an oppressive gender binary.” Ummm… what is he saying? This is insane. He says men and women. I say boys and girls. Whatever you say, males and females cannot live together non-sexually? That’s the whole point of it all! Historical tradition, anatomy/physiology, psychology… they all point to males and females being sexual creatures. After all, what is the most fundamental demographic? Are you male or female?One final point from the story. “Most schools restrict the option to upperclassmen and urge students to discuss their living situation with their parents. They also strongly discourage students in sexual relationships from living together, telling them they are too young for such a serious commitment and that college relationships are often unstable.” Really… We’ll tell you that you are too young for a serious commitment, but then let you make a serious commitment, albeit for a year. College relationships are often unstable, but what the heck? We’ll let you try it.Why don’t we (and by we, I mean society) just go ahead and say that we approve of sex before marriage? I meet many people who say they are “living together.” One girl I know just got engaged, and I asked if she was excited. she said, “Sure, but we’re already living together, so it’s really no big deal.” My friends, it is a big deal. It is a huge deal. If you’re already living together, why get married? Seriously, if you’re going to do everything that married couples do anything, what good will getting married do for you (other than tax benefits)?I want to make sure that I’m careful here. I know people who are of the opposite sex who live together. I am sure I know people who I don’t know are living together. Know that my aim here is not to denigrate or look down on you, but simply to show that what you’re doing is unhealthy, and in most cases, sinful. There is grace and mercy that abounds for all who would come to Christ (Isaiah 55:1-3). I know this because i have come time and time again to the fountain. Everyday I sin,. and everyday God receives me as His child because of his Son’s death in my place. But that means that choices have to be made, and one of the choices that needs to be made is to separate physically (living, sexual relationships) until you join physically (marriage). I know that my church will not marry a couple who are living together. Our teaching pastor says that that belief is met with surprising resistance, especially considering that many of these couples are regular attenders to our church. Hebrews 13:4 says, “Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled. (ESV)” It really doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know what that means. Marriage is an earthly picture of a heavenly reality. It is the illustration of Christ and the church. Christ is completely faithful to us. He died for us to be redeemed. What have we done to Him?