Ethics

Seven Days of Godly Sex

By Ed Brayton

You may have heard recently about a megachurch pastor in Texas declaring Seven Days of Sex and telling the married couples in his 20,000 member church to have sex every night for a week. The New York Times reports:

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.

"Today we're beginning this sexperiment, seven days of sex," he said, with his characteristic mix of humor, showmanship and Scripture. "How to move from whining about the economy to whoopee!"

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on November 30, 2008 (boomark / email).