Unification Church views of sexuality

The Unification Church views heterosexual marriage as God's ideal. According to Rev. Sun Myung Moon, people are to grow to maturity, becoming "fruitful" (Gen. 1:28), then join in holy matrimony with a member of the opposite sex and "multiply", i.e. have children.

The church regards any sexual contact between people other than that between husband and wife as sinful.

Love is the strongest force

Unificationism's most central book teachings, Divine Principle, asserts that love is the strongest force in the universe, more powerful than law or principle, and true love is Unificationism's highest value. A fundamental teaching of Divine Principle is that the original sin causing the fall of man at the begninning of human history was, in fact, inappropriate sexual relationships that corrupted true love. Sexual union based on true love between husband and wife is spoken about frankly and approvingly in many speeches by Sun Myung Moon.

References

External links

• Exposition of the Divine Principle, HSA-UWC, 1996 (ISBN 0-910621-80-2).
• Response to a question on homosexuality, from Unification.Net
• Unification Church views of homosexuality