I’ve always been a little skeptical about movements like The New Abstinence and True Love Waits. Not because these folks’ hearts (and other body parts) aren’t in the right place, but because I wonder how sustainable these movements are in today’s culture. Either way, here’s evidence that some people have taken it to heart.

Jill Merry and Adrian Burwell began dating last November. They got engaged in May. But the first time they kiss will be Aug. 16 — at the altar, in front of more than 600 people.
“We have all the same emotions everyone else does. We just decided to put guidelines to it,” said Merry, 26, of Bellevue. “We knew that if we started touching, things were going to start happening.”

Of course, Merry’s guilty of a kind of slippery-slopism here, and we wouldn’t want to open that can of worms in the Corner again…