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【Adultery】Returning from Sunday
school, where the Ten Commandments had been the topic of the day, a young boy
asked his father, “Daddy, what does it mean when it says, ‘Thou shalt not
commit agriculture?’” There was hardly a beat between the question and the
father’s reply: “Son, that just means that you’re not supposed to plow the
other man’s field,” an answer satisfactory to both of them.
【Homosexuality】New York - The Empire State Building will go lavender for three
days. The skyscraper will be doused
in lavender light June 22-24 for the annual Gay and Lesbian Pride March. Lavender symbolizes the gay
movement. Colored lights have been
used to illuminate the 59-year-old building for Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's
Day, and the Fourth of July. But
for years the management of the 102-story building has rejected lighting
requests by groups representing homosexuals. Now there's a change of heart in response
to Mayor David Dinkins' plea to end discrimination. About 700,000 homosexuals live in the
city. About 200,000 people will
take part in the march. Karin
Schwartz of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation calls the lighting
"a moving symbol of our
pride."
--By Bruce Frankel,
【Homosexuality】Seattle (Reuter) - An organization of rabbis representing the largest
and most liberal wing of American Judaism has adopted a policy admitting openly
homosexual men and women to its clergy.
A policy-making report on homosexuality and the rabbinate was approved
overwhelmingly yesterday by voice vote at the annual meeting here of the
Central Conference of American Rabbis.
The vote marks the first time a large Judeo-Christian religious body has
admitted homosexuals to its clergy.
The report, by a 17-member ad hoc committee, endorsed the religious
equality of Jews regardless of sexual orientation. However, it emphasized that the ideal
human relationship was "heterosexual, monogamous, procreative
marriage" and it stopped short of rendering homosexual relationships as
"religiously valid" as heterosexual ones. The reform movement, the largest branch
of Judaism in the
【Masturbation】For me the real
evil of masturbation would be that is takes an appetite which, in lawful use,
leads an individual out of himself to complete (and correct) his own
personality in that of another (and finally in children and even grandchildren)
and turns it back; sends the man back into the prison of himself, there to keep
a harem of imaginary brides. And his harem, once admitted, works against his
ever getting out and really uniting with a real woman.—C.S. Lewis
【Sex】Sexual intercourse outside of marriage is
always wrong. Why? Because those who indulge in it are trying to isolate one
aspect of union-the physical-from all the other aspects that were intended to
make a total union of two people. There is nothing wrong with sexual pleasure,
any more than there is with the pleasure of eating. However, just as attempting
to enjoy the pleasures of eating and tasting without swallowing and digesting
is abhorrent and wrong, so attempting to enjoy sex as an isolated physical
sensation is wrong.
【Sex】Sex is like fire. In a fireplace, it’s
warm and delightful. Outside the hearth, it’s destructive and uncontrollable.
【Sex】You can usually get a large audience together to
watch a striptease. There is no question about it, a lot of people would come to
watch a woman undress on the stage, thus indulging and misusing their sexual
appetites.
Now
suppose you visited a country where an auditorium is packed to the walls with
people watching, not a girl undressing, but a guy walking out with big tray
covered with a veil. Then music begins to play, lights begin to flash, and all
of a sudden, after some rather enticing maneuvers, the veil is lifted and there
on the tray is an orange. Next, in a teasing way, the fellow begins to peel the
orange while that crowd goes wild! Wouldn’t you think that in this country
something had gone wrong with the people’s appetite for food?
The
Bible clearly speaks regarding the proper use of the body. In 1 Corinthians
6:13, Paul says, “The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the
Lord” (NIV). And yet, what happens in our society? The body is distorted to the
place of perversion!
【Sex】A wealthy couple desired to employ a
chauffeur. The lady of the house advertised, the applicants were screened, and
four suitable candidates were brought before her for the final selection. She
called the prospective chauffeurs to her balcony and pointed out a brick wall
alongside the driveway. Then she asked the men, “How close do you think you
could come to that wall without scratching my car?”
The
first man felt that he could drive within a foot of the wall without damaging
the car. The second felt sure that he could come within six inches. The third
believed that he could get within three inches. The fourth candidate said, “I
do not know how close I could come to the wall without damaging your car.
Instead, I would try to stay as far away from that wall as I could.” This
candidate had a different focus. He understood that true skill in driving is
not based so much on the ability to steer the car to a narrow miss as on the
ability to keep a wide margin of safety.
Like
the fourth candidate, there are many aspects of human nature, such as sexual
temptation, that are best dealt with by keeping a wide margin of safety. When
we decide what to do in a doubtful area, such as going to a particular movie,
we should be as wise as that man.
【Sex】Christians should view sex with reverence.
Therefore, they should not joke about it. Just as all Christians view communion
with reverence and thus never joke about it, in like manner is sex considered
sacred-and to joke about it is a form of profanity.