Comments on: RevBev: a Penn resource http://lamp.dailypennsylvanian.com/thespin/2007/11/05/revbev-a-penn-resource/ The opinion blog of The Daily Pennsylvanian Fri, 09 Jan 2009 07:32:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Jean LaVassaur http://lamp.dailypennsylvanian.com/thespin/2007/11/05/revbev-a-penn-resource/#comment-1343 Jean LaVassaur Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:06:17 +0000 http://lamp.dailypennsylvanian.com/thespin/?p=712#comment-1343 This discussion makes me think of the double standard inherent in the "purity" pledges that some young people are taking today. These young people have every right to decide not tohave sex until they are married, if it is THEIR OWN belief that such a choice is what is best for them. It does seem unnatural to me as well as inconsistent with what goes on in our culture in general, but I support their right ot make this choice. What I do take exception with in these "purity pledges" is how they imply that sex is "impure" aka dirty, etc. If these young people are pure because they are not having sex, are the parents who created them acting impurely by having sex?? Are their fathers and (GOD forbid) their Mothers impure. This is not a purity pledge, it is an abstinence pledge. To call it anything else perpetuates the destructive and unnatural thinking that sex is dirty. It is just another way to arbitrarily divide and disjoin the human family which needs, now more than ever to embrace every member and to promote the truth that we are all connected to one creative and loving source. This discussion makes me think of the double standard inherent in the “purity” pledges that some young people are taking today. These young people have every right to decide not tohave sex until they are married, if it is THEIR OWN belief that such a choice is what is best for them. It does seem unnatural to me as well as inconsistent with what goes on in our culture in general, but I support their right ot make this choice.

What I do take exception with in these “purity pledges” is how they imply that sex is “impure” aka dirty, etc. If these young people are pure because they are not having sex, are the parents who created them acting impurely by having sex?? Are their fathers and (GOD forbid) their Mothers impure. This is not a purity pledge, it is an abstinence pledge. To call it anything else perpetuates the destructive and unnatural thinking that sex is dirty. It is just another way to arbitrarily divide and disjoin the human family which needs, now more than ever to embrace every member and to promote the truth that we are all connected to one creative and loving source.

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