261SAG Awards, Sexual Abuse, & Virginity

posted by Jeffrey on January 29th, 2007

I am trying desperately this morning to NOT rant on the subject of a pastor from Bellevue Baptist Church, in Memphis, being [wrongfully, imho] fired last week after admitting he sexually abused his son seventeen years ago. I saw that story on News 2 this morning while fixing my breakfast, and nearly through the skillet at the TV. That situation has angered me to the point that I shant even put pen to paper fingers to keyboard regarding my specific thoughts on the wrongness of it.

In it’s stead, let me take a second to give some more props to Hugh Laurie, who took home the Male Actor in a Drama Series SAG award last night for his performance as Dr. Greg House on Fox’s hit TV show House. Hugh is having a great run so far this year with the SAG award last night and the Golden Globe award for that same role two weeks ago. Catch the all new episode of House tomorrow night on Fox! [I also believe that my wife and I are semi-responsible for Hugh’s winning of these two awards, being that during the announcement of the nominees on both the Golden Globes and SAGs, we have performed the “House dance” that we do to the theme song of the show every Tuesday night. Were it not for that dance, I’m convinced Hugh would not have won…well maybe he’d have won one of them, but surely not both.]

Lastly, Sam Davidson has the first post in a short series of posts on “Theology and the Body” up at his place. This post deals with our application of the apostle Paul’s thoughts on virginity to the Corinthians as scare tactics and false truth to our teenagers today. Here’s an excerpt of his post:

“For years, teenagers are told of the dangers, both physical and emotional, of engaging in sexual intercourse before being legally married. Scare tactics are often used and horrible analogies are employed in order to encourage conformity. By paralleling one’s premarital sexual life to bruised fruit, plucked roses, or disappointed husbands, young women are taught an unhealthy view of human sexuality.”

Go check out the rest at Sam’s place. Also, keep a watch for Sam’s guest post here, coming up in the near future.

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