Family Research Council senior fellow on allowing single people to have sex: “Functioning societies don’t do that, they stop it, they punish it, they corral people, they shame people, they do whatever."

Courtesy of Mediaite:  

While guesting on Washington Watch Monday afternoon, FRC senior fellow Pat Fagan argued that the 1972 Supreme Court court case Eisenstadt v. Baird, which overturned a Massachusetts law banning the distribution of contraceptives to unmarried people, is quite possibly “the single most destructive decision in the history of the Court.” 

Fagan was accompanied by ever-so-thoughtful evangelist and FRC head Tony Perkins. 

In Fagan’s mind, that Court decision effectively told all single people that they have “the right to engage in sexual intercourse.” Never mind the fact that, well, they kind of do have the right — you know, consenting adults and whatnot — because Fagan remembers when society used to have laws forbidding such sin. 

“Society never gave young people that right,” he continued. “Functioning societies don’t do that, they stop it, they punish it, they corral people, they shame people, they do whatever. The institution for the expression of sexuality is marriage and all societies always shepherded young people there, what the Supreme Court said was forget that shepherding, you can’t block that, that’s not to be done.” 

By giving an implicit seal of approval on premarital sex, Fagan said, the Court was “brushing aside millennia, thousands and thousands of years of wisdom, tradition, culture and setting in motion what we have.”

“Functioning societies don’t do that, they stop it, they punish it, they corral people, they shame people, they do whatever." That may be perhaps the most honest description for the function of religion that I have ever read.

By the way, the "thousands and thousands of years" he is referring to, is thousands and thousands of years of the Christian oppression of human sexuality. Not "wisdom." The entire religion is essentially set up to police the sexual conduct of human beings.

Just ask the Hawaiian people, or native Americans. They were people whose sexuality was as open and natural to them as eating or breathing. That is until they were introduced to the idea of shame, and were told that every terrible thing that befell them in life was the direct result of their "sins against God." And those sins were more often than not of a sexual nature.

The idea that the most basic function of humankind, our sexuality, is something that these people feel they have the right to control, is to me repugnant and, dare I say it,  evil.

The thing that Christianity fears the most is sex. Especially the sexuality of females.

Do you think they persecuted women as witches because they thought they were agents of Satan?

Fuck no, they persecuted them because their feared the power of the feminine, and they wanted to crush ANY sexuality not given the stamp of approval by the church. That goes for unmarried sex, gay sex, and, for quite a long time, sex between the races or between Christians and other religious faiths. Regardless of whether they were legally married or not.

Our most primitive religions were based either predominantly on the female deity, or the worship was spread evenly between male and female gods. Simply put, Christianity could not abide that.

Just imagine how different, how much more free, our country could have been without these puritanical sexual standards having been used to oppress us for lo these many years.