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San Diego priest who covered up sex assault placed in charge of sex abuse hotline

Sex Without God

From Why Atheists Have Great Sex by Greta Christina:

I want to offer a positive way of looking at sexuality and sexual transcendence that doesn’t involve any sort of belief in the supernatural. I want to offer a sex- positive philosophy that is entirely materialist. The materialist view of life in general and sex in particular is often viewed as cold, bleak, narrow, mechanical, reductionist, and generally a downer. I don’t think it is. And I want to talk about why.

Read more here.

Now I'm REALLY Pissed At Glenn Beck

This is the worst thing that Glenn Beck has ever done. Because of his Earth Day escapades encouraging chain-saw massacres my brain has become fixated on Beck having sex (I think he is probably incapable of making love) while he fantasizes about chain-saws clear-cutting a massive forest. (Does his wife know that this is what really gets him off?)

Out, I say. Get out of my head NOW!

Damn you, Beck!

Doing It

From Science!

If you don’t make mistakes, you’re doing it wrong. If you don’t correct those mistakes, you’re doing it really wrong. If you can’t accept that you’re mistaken, you’re not doing it at all.

I think that this applies to life in general… and religion… and playing the stock market… and sex…

D'oh!

From Simpsons cartoon rip-off is child porn: judge:

A NSW Supreme Court judge has ruled an internet cartoon in which lookalike child characters from The Simpsons engage in sexual acts is child pornography.

In a landmark finding, Justice Michael Adams today upheld a decision convicting a man of possessing child pornography after the cartoons, depicting characters modelled on Bart, Lisa and Maggie engaging in sex acts, were found on his computer.

The main issue of the case was whether a fictional cartoon character could "depict" a "person" under law.

"If the persons were real, such depictions could never be permitted,"Justice Adams said in his judgement. "Their creation would constitute crimes at the very highest end of the criminal calendar."

But Justice Adams agreed with the magistrate, finding that while The Simpsons characters had hands with four fingers and their faces were "markedly and deliberately different to those of any possible human being", the mere fact that they were not realistic representations of human beings did not mean that they could not be considered people.

From the word 'person' included fictional or imaginary characters ... by Neil Gaiman:

And I suspect the Judge might have just inadvertantly granted human rights to cartoon characters.

I think it's nonsensical in every way that it could possibly be nonsensical. The Simpsons characters aren't real people. They definitely aren't real children. (Given that they first appeared in the late eighties, they're also all over eighteen now...)

The ability to distinguish between fiction and reality is, I think, an important indicator of sanity, perhaps the most important. And it looks like the Australian legal system has failed on that score.

Rev. Ed Young Couldn't Keep It Up

Does this prove that Ed Young is not God? Young’s day of rest being on Tuesday and all.

From Pastor’s Advice for Better Marriage: More Sex by Gretel C. Kovach:

And on the seventh day, there was no rest for married couples. A week after the Rev. Ed Young challenged husbands and wives among his flock of 20,000 to strengthen their unions through Seven Days of Sex, his advice was — keep it going.

Mr. Young, an author, a television host and the pastor of the evangelical Fellowship Church, issued his call for a week of “congregational copulation” among married couples on Nov. 16, while pacing in front of a large bed. Sometimes he reclined on the paisley coverlet while flipping through a Bible, emphasizing his point that it is time for the church to put God back in the bed.

Does this mean God was having a three way with Young and his wife? Or does God just like to watch? Does this make God kinda kinky?

It is not always easy to devote time for your spouse, Pastor Young admitted. Just three days into the sex challenge he said he was so tired after getting up before dawn to talk about the importance of having more sex in marriage that he crashed on the bed around 8 p.m. on Tuesday night.

Mrs. Young tried to shake him awake, telling her husband, “Come on, it’s the sex challenge.” But Mr. Young murmured, “Let’s just double up tomorrow,” and went back to sleep.

With God on his side, why couldn’t Young keep it up?

I believe in the separation of church and state. I also believe in the separation of religion and sex.

Seven Days Of Sex

Didn’t God say six days of sex, and then a day of rest?

From Texas pastor to issue 7-day sex challenge by the Associated Press:

The pastor of a megachurch says he will challenge married congregants during his sermon Sunday to have sex for seven straight days — and he plans to practice what he preaches.

“We’re going to give it a try,” said the Rev. Ed Young, who has four children with his wife of 26 years.

Young, 47, said he believes society promotes promiscuity and he wants to reclaim sex for married couples. Sex should be a nurturing, spiritual act that strengthens marriages, he said.

“God says sex should be between a married man and a woman,” Young said. “I think it’s one of the greatest things you can do for your kids because so goes the marriage, so goes the family.”

So. Have sex. Do it for the kids. And if you’re gay or sleeping around, well screw you, there’s just no way you can have sex for seven days straight. It’s in the Bible someplace, I’m sure.

Isn’t it kind of blasphemous to go for seven days, when God needed to rest after six? By the way, why did someone who is all-powerful need to rest?

Don’t miss the seven days of sex challenge. Why? I’m not sure. Won’t there be another seven days coming along again very soon? It seems to me that you could have sex seven days in a row any time you want to.

There is more that I could say about all of this, but it sort of creeps me out to think about it, and it would creep me out even more to write about it.

What would Jesus do?

Oily Sex

As long as Bill Clinton isn’t getting any, will any Republican care?

From Wide-Ranging Ethics Scandal Emerges at Interior Dept. by Charlie Savage:

As Congress prepares to debate expansion of drilling in taxpayer-owned coastal waters, the Interior Department agency that collects oil and gas royalties has been caught up in a wide-ranging ethics scandal — including allegations of financial self-dealing, accepting gifts from energy companies, cocaine use and sexual misconduct.

In three reports delivered to Congress on Wednesday, the department’s inspector general, Earl E. Devaney, found wrongdoing by a dozen current and former employees of the Minerals Management Service, which collects about $10 billion in royalties annually and is one of the government’s largest sources of revenue other than taxes.

“A culture of ethical failure” besets the agency, Mr. Devaney wrote in a cover memo.

The reports portray a dysfunctional organization that has been riddled with conflicts of interest, unprofessional behavior and a free-for-all atmosphere for much of the Bush administration’s watch.

Read the rest here.

"An outrage of notable proportions which bespeaks unutterable squalor"

There are two sides to every story.

From Atheists caught having sex in cathedral:

The agency said the pair -- a 31-year-old laborer and a 32-year-old teacher -- defended their conduct saying: "We are atheists and for us, having sex in church is like doing it any other place."

However, Bishop Antonio Lanfranchi of Cesena-Sarsina took said the couple's behavior was "an outrage of notable proportions which bespeaks unutterable squalor."

He added that a special ceremony would be held to purify the confession box.

Read more here.

If God wanted us to have sex he would have given us sex organs.

Does Bush Have A Sex Life?

The news media loved to give us all the latest on Bill Clinton’s libido. Why the double standard when it comes to Dubya?

Inquiring minds want to know.