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Grew up in the Church of Jesus Christ and Latter Day Saints and Roman Catholic traditions, including a stint at a Catholic school; somewhat sadly, before the point at which young women (people - not the misogynist Mormon class) wore kilts. Attended church until a teen, but held atheist sentiments from a young age, despite being in a family full of believers. This is a place for my thoughts regarding religion on both a personal level and relating to the world, of which I am a member... And Mormons say journals are a good thing :)

July 13, 2007

Forgiveness of Sexxx

I hope to read this book sometime, but it's not at the public library (not that I'm complaining! (note: I by no means promote banning any books)) The university library, which is among the largest in this continent, doesn't have it either. I obviously would never purchase such a book, unless it was second-hand at some bargain bookstore, so I doubt I'll be able to anytime soon; however this is not necessarily a bad thing.

I'm glad I was out of 'the church' by the time I would have been old enough to be given the book "The Miracle of Forgiveness" Though had I been, I would have had a good laugh over it (though having female anatomy, I'd be unable to make any jokes about *ahem* 'stabbing' people) and on the off-chance it was comprimised of bible paper, a good smoke too... Yes, I have used the bible as rolling papes. I don't recommend it, soley on the basis that it's bad for you (The bible, not the smoke (Even the Word of Wisdom doesn't condemn that))

I know of person who, when in our teens, had to go to church court because she had sex. I don't know exactly what punishment she got, but assume it was a disfellowshipment since she was allowed to become a full member again in a year or so. She was a convert with no other Mormon family, so maybe they went easy on her, seeing as sex outside marriage is considered next to murder to Mormons. At that point I was not active, except for non-overtly religious functions I'd be taken to by my LDS parent (surprisingly, I don't recall much Jello) so I don't know if she ended up returning.

I also don't know what, if anything, happened to the male party. At least from my empirical observations, the males are seen as the instigator (since women can never be vocal, sexual people) but they also are punished less severely, if at all (since 'boys will be boys') It stinks of what Penn and Teller would so eloquently say is bullshit.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

God is really only a dog. Mormons have always been too square.