"Why? Because the command of God is not there."

"Huren et buben siꜩen auch bey samen, zeugen kinder, samlen gu^eter.  Das wesen und leben ist ehnlich matrimonio, ut nihil &c. et tamen huren und buben ut . . . Quare?  quia Dei befelh ist nicht da."

     Martin Luther, "Pridie Sebastiani.  Secundus sermo de baptism," Sermon on the Second Sunday after Epiphany, 19 January 1539, WA 47, 647 ll. 2-5.  Robert Kolb (paraphrasing), in "'What benefit does the soul receive from a handful of water?': Luther’s preaching on Baptism, 1528-1539," Concordia journal 25, no. 4 (October 1999):  350 (346–363):  "Whores may have boyfriends [(Huren et buben, in modern German Whores and boys/knaves/fornicators)] with whom they live and by whom they bear children, but similarity to marriage is not marriage.  Their way of life lacks God's support and command."