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Okay - the next person to tell me that the election was decided on "morals" or "values" gets me going nuts, standing on my head and screaming "Prove it, prove it, prove it, prove it" like a demented monkey with the power of speech because - you all know - this is just not the case. This is just one of those things we are being told and are accepting like the good little automatons we are.
It is more like a moral minority - they just happen to be in charge and controlling the information that is fed to the public at large.
It's not like this is the first time this has happened. But today I was reading an article about "Kinsey" and the current climate of sexual suppression in the popular media and in The New York Times and the writer made a point about how the moral minority (OH! MORAL ELITE!) want to stop all references to any form of nonbiblical sex...
And I had to wonder what Bible they were reading. Maybe there is a new one that has been censored cause -outside of certain fanfics - the Bible has more and various sex in it than anything I have ever read.
Trust me. When I was a kid I had to go to church camp and at church camp you are only allowed to read the Bible and books about the Bible and the Bible was always soooo much more interesting with its whores and incest and King David running around Mad Pimping.
I learned about bestiality from the Bible. I never would have thought of that - I am notoriously uncreative when it comes to the subject - but there was one of those warnings about it in one of those long lists of warnings and so I asked a camp counselor what specifically was being referred to here. Now you have to understand - these camp counselors were students culled from the nearby Bible College. The men were all gonna be youth or music ministers and hopefully work their way up to one day lead a church of their own and the women were all either gonna marry a preacher or lead a choir or... actually - I have no idea what the women were doing there. Why would you go to a Bible College that cost thousands and thousands of dollars if one of the tenants of your religion is that you cannot serve in a church in a capacity other than Sunday School teacher?
Maybe they wanted to be missionaries (and off the subject - I am getting tired of every single time I hear of a distant relative going to some place remotely interesting it is always on a mission trip. Can't my people leave the proselytizing off for one freaking vacation? On a related note: You must all watch "The Invisible Man" - I want to take at least five minutes with each of you and sit and talk about how the introduction of Bobby and Darien into your life will bring you immense joy and peace and also red-eyed writhing on the ground).
I have no idea what I was talking about. Oh yeah -- so I would go to these 19 and 20 year old wide-eyed Christian Counselors with lists of stuff I would read and not understand and bless them -- they were not prepared for a twelve year old with specific demands and an eye for the lurid.
It is more like a moral minority - they just happen to be in charge and controlling the information that is fed to the public at large.
It's not like this is the first time this has happened. But today I was reading an article about "Kinsey" and the current climate of sexual suppression in the popular media and in The New York Times and the writer made a point about how the moral minority (OH! MORAL ELITE!) want to stop all references to any form of nonbiblical sex...
And I had to wonder what Bible they were reading. Maybe there is a new one that has been censored cause -outside of certain fanfics - the Bible has more and various sex in it than anything I have ever read.
Trust me. When I was a kid I had to go to church camp and at church camp you are only allowed to read the Bible and books about the Bible and the Bible was always soooo much more interesting with its whores and incest and King David running around Mad Pimping.
I learned about bestiality from the Bible. I never would have thought of that - I am notoriously uncreative when it comes to the subject - but there was one of those warnings about it in one of those long lists of warnings and so I asked a camp counselor what specifically was being referred to here. Now you have to understand - these camp counselors were students culled from the nearby Bible College. The men were all gonna be youth or music ministers and hopefully work their way up to one day lead a church of their own and the women were all either gonna marry a preacher or lead a choir or... actually - I have no idea what the women were doing there. Why would you go to a Bible College that cost thousands and thousands of dollars if one of the tenants of your religion is that you cannot serve in a church in a capacity other than Sunday School teacher?
Maybe they wanted to be missionaries (and off the subject - I am getting tired of every single time I hear of a distant relative going to some place remotely interesting it is always on a mission trip. Can't my people leave the proselytizing off for one freaking vacation? On a related note: You must all watch "The Invisible Man" - I want to take at least five minutes with each of you and sit and talk about how the introduction of Bobby and Darien into your life will bring you immense joy and peace and also red-eyed writhing on the ground).
I have no idea what I was talking about. Oh yeah -- so I would go to these 19 and 20 year old wide-eyed Christian Counselors with lists of stuff I would read and not understand and bless them -- they were not prepared for a twelve year old with specific demands and an eye for the lurid.
