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Sex in our city

Mike McLellan

This is a tad tongue in cheek.

Let’s get this straight — or, if not straight, then correct: Religion, ethics and morals are about more than just sex. 

Yet, despite other crises, we seem obsessed by sex.

What kind of sexual are you? Are you asexual, homosexual, bisexual or other?

I’ll go first and confess that I am a heterosexual. Yes, and some of my best friends are heterosexual.

I am not always proud of it. I would not get involved in a heterosexual-pride parade.

Heterosexuals are sometimes an embarrassment.

Certainly, they have not been very tolerant. Intolerance itself has roots back to Cain and Abel. The very first persons created by heterosexual behavior could not get along.

We were all happier in the Victorian Age, when sexuality was private, personal and not talked about over dinner. Even so, some heterosexuals flaunt their sexuality. Some want it taught in public schools. They increasingly are found exposing their views through the press. 

Are we getting the whole truth from predominantly heterosexual television? Many suspect that heterosexuals are in every segment of the media, trying to recruit others. Daytime television, for example, is overrun by people pushing heterosexuality.

Heterosexual public figures and potential role models for children are continually in the news for immoral behavior. It should sadden all of us when heterosexual celebrities do inappropriate things so publicly. 

Many heterosexuals think that marriage should only be between one man and one woman. With easy divorce, this actually comes down to marriage being between one man and one woman — at a time. The issues of vows, commitment and fidelity often seem to be left out of the dialogue. 

There are some who say we should live and let live, but many heterosexuals’ inability to maintain their commitments is eroding the family values of our nation. We have become so accustomed to it that we no longer talk about “broken homes.” To be politically correct, we could say that more than half of children today come from slightly bent families.

While many think that heterosexuality is the law of the land, ingrained in the very Constitution, some feel we need an amendment stating that fact. Come on now — if the framers of the Constitution believed in heterosexual monogamy, they would have all practiced it.

Even though heterosexuals have not lived up to the highest standards, there are worse things, like chastity. Chastity, while fairly harmless, does not seem natural. If God wanted chastity, one has to ask why we were created with certain body parts in the first place.

Would it not be better for heterosexuals and the chaste to stop pushing their agendas and start working on controlling their other urges?

We are in several wars right now. The economy has gone south. Oil companies have accomplished mind control in government. Our planet is polluted, and our world is being made into one large landfill. Why spend so much time pushing one sexual point of view rather than spending energy on greater issues?

We will not have much chastity or sex of any kind if we do not address the other problems we have. We need to work on getting along, waging peace, and creating a better environment for our children.

Indeed, children are the result of heterosexuality and thus are heterosexuals’ particular responsibility.  If you are going to produce offspring, you should create the very best world in which they can grow up.

Those practicing chastity should also be aware that they, too, must help. Caring for our world and the next generation is a universal responsibility. We all have to work on this. Wars, rising oil prices and crime are things that happen while we are abstinent. No one litters or starts a war while exercising their sexuality.

We have made sexual expression something more important than truth telling, cheating or illegal wire-taps. Sure, this theme is a holdover from the hippie era, which asked us to “make love, not war.” That still is a wholesome concept.

While we debate a few lines of ancient writing, we are missing the point of all accumulated wisdom: 

Love is never immoral. Hate always is.

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