The Disconnect Between Faith and Sex
Google Image Driving across Nebraska recently, I tuned to a local radio station featuring a conservative religious program. A caller told the radio host how grateful she was for the “prayer before the marriage act” the host had composed. "Yikes!” I thought. “What better way to throw cold water on ‘the marriage act’ than to say a prayer beforehand!” My reaction is an example of the obvious disconnect between faith and sex many of us display. (Like many Catholic families, my wife and I have crucifixes hanging above the beds in our bedrooms. Some who sleep there may have a reaction similar to mine about the “prayer-before-the-marriage-act.”) Many young people identify sex as one of the areas that most turns them off about religion, but when is the last time those of us who go to church have heard the subject mentioned in a homily? Most homilists and professional religious people avoid the topic like they would a poke in the eye. All-encompassing So I’m w...