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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!"
Unfortunately, Pastor Young couldn't keep it up (*cough*) himself:
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.
Bow chicka wow wow. Oh, and what about single people?
"If you've said, 'I do,' do it," he said. As for single people, "I don't know, try eating chocolate cake," he said.
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As for single people, "I don't know, try eating chocolate cake."
Off of what?
Posted by: Eveningsun | November 30, 2008 9:26 AM
Let them eat cake?
Posted by: Schmeer | November 30, 2008 9:26 AM
In order to create further discord between these Texans and those of us in Michigan, I'm not going to church this morning. Instead I plan on drinking good coffee, smoking a bowl, and having pre-marital sex with my living-in-sin girlfriend. I may have to rake my fall leaves in below-freezing weather, but we still have way more fun than fundie Southerners!
Posted by: Rob | November 30, 2008 9:27 AM
Posted by: 2-D Man | November 30, 2008 9:56 AM
As for single people, "I don't know, try eating chocolate cake," he said.
Just for that, I'm going to find some nun porn to masturbate to.
Posted by: schism | November 30, 2008 10:10 AM
A sincere query here. The Ten Commandments forbid adultery, but say nothing about pre-marital sex. Do I have that right?
Posted by: Steppenwolf | November 30, 2008 10:35 AM
... but what about all the Biblical scriptures of how God commands his minor prophets to shag prostitutes?
http://jaypinkerton.com/hosea.html
Posted by: Umlud | November 30, 2008 10:40 AM
It's not pre-marital if you don't get married
Posted by: Ramel | November 30, 2008 10:44 AM
The obliviousness of naivete.
Imagine how much happier the married couples in his flock would be if the good pastor had suggested: "Make love" instead of "Have sex" For making love includes showering together, massages, surprise treats, to wit all forms of TLC. That would have eliminated the poison pill of obligation which Pastor Young inadvertently gave his flock.
Posted by: Rod | November 30, 2008 10:45 AM
Rob, you just described my morning, and I'm in Dallas. Some of us Texans get it.
Posted by: Science Avenger | November 30, 2008 10:50 AM
The chocolate cake is a lie!
...wait, this is probably the wrong crowd for that to be funny.
Posted by: Squiddhartha | November 30, 2008 10:55 AM
Did Mr. Young have his pants on when "he reclined on the paisley coverlet while flipping through a Bible, emphasizing his point"?
Posted by: Ex-drone | November 30, 2008 11:13 AM
Brilliant, I assume Rev Young will be a guest comedian for your stand up gig?
Posted by: Matty | November 30, 2008 12:56 PM
Brilliant, I assume Rev Young will be a guest comedian for your stand up gig?
Posted by: Matty | November 30, 2008 12:58 PM
Brilliant, I assume Rev Young will be a guest comedian for your stand up gig?
Posted by: Matty | November 30, 2008 12:58 PM
Did he just tell single people to "Let them eat cake?" LOL.
And oh yes, Squidhartha. I got it. :)
Posted by: scrabcake | November 30, 2008 1:49 PM
How odd. I thought Christians are supposed to avoid sex.
1 Corinthians 7:29
...from now on, let even those who have wives be as though they had none,
Posted by: David Ratnasabapathy | November 30, 2008 1:49 PM
Hey, how did you know what I did this morning?!?
"Sometimes it feels like,
Somebody's watching me...
And I get no sympathy, whoa whoa..."
Posted by: Joe Max | November 30, 2008 2:00 PM
Isn't "Godly Sex" just code for not in the butt?
Posted by: mgordon | November 30, 2008 3:36 PM
mgordon - nah, god's been doing that to the Jews for years. :) DJ
"qu'ils mangent de la brioche." - Pastor Young.
Posted by: DingoJack | November 30, 2008 3:56 PM
As for single people, "I don't know, try eating chocolate cake."
As if that would help - doesn't he know chocolate is an aphrodisiac?
Posted by: Thinker | November 30, 2008 4:35 PM
Dr. Isis is totally all over this!!! I am on Day Two. See?!?
Posted by: Isis the Scientist | November 30, 2008 5:29 PM
How odd. I thought Christians are supposed to avoid sex.
1 Corinthians 7:29
...from now on, let even those who have wives be as though they had none,
Posted by: David Ratnasabapathy
Maybe that just means they should be going out partying and trying to pick up any (single) women they can find, and ignoring their responsibilities for their wife and kids.
Posted by: eleanora. | November 30, 2008 5:48 PM
In case you hadn't noticed, Paul had serious issues around sex. I often wonder how the West would have turned out if hadn't been born.
Posted by: Ginger Yellow | November 30, 2008 6:15 PM
Ex-drone...
I have been "emphasizing my point" for many years now.
Posted by: BobbyEarle | November 30, 2008 6:55 PM
Exercise for christian couples: read "Song of Songs" to each other, and try not to dissolve in fits of giggles.
Posted by: Paul Murray | November 30, 2008 8:33 PM
Just wait for the results of this experiment nine months from now. It seems like the pastor came to the conclusion that there is strength in numbers, and he wants to keep long-term enrollment up.
Posted by: Danny | November 30, 2008 10:22 PM
As much as I love cake, I think I'd be a bit miffed if I had sat thru a sermon like that back when I was single. Makes me glad I had all of that ungodly, unmarried sex back in the 80's when the godly weren't paying so much attention.
Nope, didn't work for me at all... :D
Posted by: twincats | November 30, 2008 10:51 PM
Danny - just wait for the results of this experiment two months from now. Lunatics like these are the biggest hypocrites when it comes to abortion.
Posted by: Kristine | November 30, 2008 11:33 PM
"A sincere query here. The Ten Commandments forbid adultery, but say nothing about pre-marital sex. Do I have that right?"
You can find many of the Mosaic laws regarding sex in Exodus and Leviticus.
Exodus 22:16 "If a man seduces a virgin who is not pledged to be married and sleeps with her, he must pay the bride-price, and she shall be his wife. 17 If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he must still pay the bride-price for virgins.
Posted by: Noah | December 3, 2008 4:54 PM
What Noah said. The Ten Commandments don't forbid premarital sex. But --
Deuteronomy 22:20-21
Posted by: David Ratnasabapathy | December 6, 2008 2:39 PM