What does “chastity” mean in G-6.0106b?
Within the context of the Presbyterian legal system, we literally don’t know. The word may have been included in G-6.0106b in an attempt to pull language in from question #108 of the Heidelberg Catechism, which is part of the Presbyterian Book of Confessions. The language in the Catechism calls on all people to “live chaste and disciplined lives, whether in holy wedlock or in single life,” so within the context of the Heidelberg Catechism, “chastity” clearly doesn’t mean “celibacy”. The 2003 General Assembly, when given the opportunity, declined to explicitly define the term.
