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Is Shackin' in the Bible?

I was watching Episode 2 of Oxygen's new hit series 'Preachers of L.A.' and was taken aback by Deitrick Haddon's comment about shackin’ not being in the Bible. Shackin’, for my ebonically-challenged readers is an African-American colloquialism for when two unmarried individuals cohabitate. After Minister Haddon so passionately made that statement, before I knew it I was passionately shouting at my Android, 'Yes it is!'; though at the time, I didn’t know exactly where.

A few hours later I listened to the