RE: an open letter to Dr. Dobson

Blue Gal has an open letter to Dr. Dobson:

Dear Reverend Dobson:I'm just one self-professed Christian here. We both know that you don't speak for me, and I don't speak for you.

I'm disappointed that you are too busy to help Pastor Haggard with his little gay problem, though I suspect he's far better off without your "help." The drug problem has to be addressed first, since it's a symptom, in my opinion, of the self-hatred he's inflicted since who knows when. Watching you throw him under the bus told us much more about you than about him, anyway.

I think we Christians have a huge boulder in front of us called sex. We can't seem to get over the embarrassment and guilt that comes from feeling intense human pleasure. Nevermind that all of us are here, in part, because two people decided to experience that pleasure together. (I certainly hope it was good for both of them in every instance, and that not too much alcohol or Eagles music was involved.)

We can't discuss orgasms in church, and we seem unable to get beyond the whole outside of marriage issue, even though a great many so-called Christians get marriage totally wrong. We can't discuss rape in church. We can't discuss sexual responsibility. What kind of difference could the church make if it made a serious effort to discuss alcohol abuse and sex with young people? If the church told its young men, "hey, getting her drunk is not an option." And told young women, "Look, getting drunk at a party is not "asking for it," but you are losing control of your body anyway. Don't do that. It's self-abuse and it's not, repeat, not attractive." What if we in the church told our young people that sex is terrific, especially when you love the one you're with? And that love is the most important element of a sexual relationship? Do you think we could go there, Mr. Dobson? Do you?

In His name,
Blue Gal

My thoughts:
"I'm just one self-professed Christian here"
Many self-professed Christians remain an enemy of God. There will be a many 'self-professed christians' that preached the Sermon on the Mount, who feed the hungry, who never missed church, who gave to the poor, in Hell. Christ told us that.

"I think we Christians have a huge boulder in front of us called sex."
Actually, that boulder would be sex outside God's boundaries. Some of us still call sin a sin, no matter how many fall prey to it and fall short.

"We can't seem to get over the embarrassment and guilt that comes from feeling intense human pleasure."
I assume she is refering to an orgasm etc.. Many husbands and wives enjoy orgasms within their Marriage with each other. Maybe she is talking about the intense human pleasures of PCP? Meth? or just the intense pleasures of sin?

"We can't discuss orgasms in church"
We can't? What church does she go to?

"and we seem unable to get beyond the whole outside of marriage issue,"
Oh yeh, those pesky sexual boundaries God has provided us. I assume Blue Gal would like us all to embrace sex outside of marriage. That, of course, will help Planned Parenthood's impressive statistic's of killing the unborn for more tax money. It is also a terrific way to spread disease and death. Good call Ms. Degree holding Havard Divinity grad!

"We can't discuss sexual responsibility"
Again, I can only wonder what church she is attending.

"What if we in the church told our young people that sex is terrific, especially when you love the one you're with?"
Probably because that is insane! ...maybe? Can you imagine a 13 year old who is "in love" hearing that bullshit? Please make a mental note Blue Gal: A pedophile 'loves' the child.

Once again, perhaps well intentioned, self professed followers of Christ justify their own desires in the name of 'love'. When God's boundaries for our lives are just 'too much to handle and people do it anyway', or by making it OK with God by simply revising God's word to fit their worldly wants based not on His holy word, but human wisdom, we all can just rest easy and 'live and let live'. Tolerance, after all, is key to living a holy life.

"And that love is the most important element of a sexual relationship? "
The most important element is God, and His defintion of 'love', not yours or mine.
The ONE God Blue Gal seems unwilling to die to herself for. I suggest we begin to do that, and begin to live for Him. It ain't easy, but the work of Christ on the cross should convict our hearts, and make it a life long goal!