The principles of purity, fidelity, and their derivate guidelines are certainly right in pointing to the kind of behavior God expects of his creation. As will be evident throughout this book, I believe that God has ordained sex to be expressed in the context of a covenant relationship of marriage between a man and a woman. But I differ somewhat in how this expectation is set forth and why we do so. The main problem historically with deontological or principle ethics is its frequent failure to set