Relationships and families quotes

Sex outside of marriage

1. ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ (Christianity) 
2. ‘Flee from sexual immorality.’ (Christianity) 
3. ‘A man should not stay with a woman in seclusion unless he is a relative.’ (Islam) 
4. ‘And do not go anyway near adultery.’ (Islam)

Homosexuality

1. ‘Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; it is detestable.’ (Christianity) 
2. ‘Love thy neighbour.’ (Christianity)

3. ‘Treat others as you would like to be treated.’ (Christianity)

Contraception

1. The sanctity of life. (Christianity & Islam) 
2. ‘Love thy neighbour.’ (Christianity) 
3. ‘Be fruitful and increase in number.’ (Christianity) 
3. ‘God wished to lighten your burden; man was made weak.’ (Islam) 
4. ‘Do not kill your children for fear of poverty – we shall provide for them and for you.’ (Islam)

Marriage

1. ‘That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.’ (Christianity) 
2. ‘Be fruitful and increase in number.’ (Christianity) 
3. ‘There is no institution in Islam more beloved and dearer to God than marriage.’ (Islam)

Divorce

1. ‘Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her.’ (Christianity) 
2. ‘Love thy neighbour.’ (Christianity) 
3. ‘When any of you intend to divorce women, do so at a time when their prescribed waiting time can properly start’. (Islam)

Nature of families

1. ‘Anyone who does not provide for their relatives, and especially for their own household, has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.’ (Christianity) 
2. ‘Honour your mother and farther. (Christianity) 
3. ‘Be kind to your parents.’ (Islam) 
4. ‘Heaven is under the feet of mothers.’ (Islam)

Gender equality

1. ‘There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. (Christianity) 
2. ‘Love thy neighbour.’ (Christianity) 
3. ‘We created you all from a single man and a single woman, and made you into races and tribes so that you should recognise one another.’ (Islam)