FUCK YEAH! THEOLOGY

We were talking about churches condoning (or not) same-sex unions in class and my prof raised an important notion. Same-sex marriage is, for the first time in awhile, FORCING the church/churches to think about sex and realize how inadequate their views on sex and sexual ethics are. He suggested that maybe we ought to let the issue dangle for a little bit longer because frankly, there are a whole host of sexual issues which need to be reexamined and Aunt Betty just can’t help herself when she sees Fred and Bob hugging on Sundays. She’s thinking about the sex. Hell, I’m thinking about the sex. In fact, as we talked about later in our discussion group, most people are thinking about the sex. There’s something about seeing a gay couple that makes most people think SEX! whether you’re gay, straight, bi, homophobic, or addicted to homoeroticism -cough-. Poor Aunt Betty. Now she has to think about gay sex all Sunday while she’s trying to listen to the minister (story of my life, lady.) So if enough Aunt Betties (plural?) start thinking about it they’ll all eventually be forced to deal with it and not just the prominent issues like marriage and rites of passage like coming out, but about the big dirty S word that the church loves to incorporate into everything they do but never talk about.