tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6669068.post109683925765805115..comments2024-03-28T02:15:29.817-05:00Comments on Mouse Words: Sex, lies and justifying the means by the endsAmanda Marcottehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05098500818240791320noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6669068.post-1119933410555360052005-06-27T23:36:00.000-05:002005-06-27T23:36:00.000-05:00Hey, I just stumbled across your blog, and I have ...Hey, I just stumbled across your blog, and I have really been enjoying reading your articles. This particular one I had to comment on, as I'm a Christian, and in middle school, went to a church that had these chastity pledges and everything. I completely agree with you on the subject; in my opinion, their only purpose is to make young adults feel guilty, like sexuality is somehow wrong.<BR/>On the topic of the Bible's passages on homosexuality, lying, etc, I find it interesting that the right-wing Christians always seem to neglect the section in the New Testament about the greatest commandments being "love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul and all your mind" and "love your neighbor as yourself" and that all the rest will follow after that. It doesn't really seem to me like lying to the public, protesting homosexuality, etc. is exactly loving....but maybe thats just me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6669068.post-1096919590370706532004-10-04T14:53:00.000-05:002004-10-04T14:53:00.000-05:00There are a surprising number of ways that conserv...There are a surprising number of ways that conservative Christians justify lying to the general public. One of the favorites (Old Testament Scriptural ref. not at the tip of my tongue at the moment) is to regard the lie as being the same as a lie to an enemy in wartime. In other words, all non-Christians, all Christians of another stripe, all neighbors and all family - are enemies to be lied to, because they are consciously serving Satan or unconsciously being used by Satan. Spiritual Warfare is a 24/7/365 thing to the conservative Christians, and justifies everything.<br /><br />Ex-gay lies are no different from fake-abortion-clinic lies and lies about abortion causing breast cancer. To me it reflects their lack of belief in the spiritual rightness of their cause, their unwillingness to let their God step in and "help the gay man with the gift of celibacy" or whatever the Catholic line is (Catholics don't do this ex-gay shit, they say, deal with it, and don't do anything).<br /><br />NancyPAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6669068.post-1096903529949511412004-10-04T10:25:00.000-05:002004-10-04T10:25:00.000-05:00Heh. You've managed to permanently turn "virginit...Heh. You've managed to permanently turn "virginity pledge rings" into something dirty in my mind. Congratulations.<br /><br />Jake.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6669068.post-1096885213044636342004-10-04T05:20:00.000-05:002004-10-04T05:20:00.000-05:00"[the delay presumably caused by the virginity ple..."[the delay presumably caused by the virginity pledges is] beneficial because kids could develop skills to better handle sexual situations in that year."<br /><br />These people want children to be sexually mature should they get into a sexual situation? Gee whiz, I guess they're also in favor of comprehensive sexual education too, and the group of Evangelical Christians who oppose sex-ed is an entirely different group from the one that tries to get girls to take virginity pledges. Unless, that is, sexual maturity should one get into such a situation be bad if it is the consequence of education and good if it's the consequence of "natural" social maturation, which doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me.<br /><br />Julian ElsonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com