Friday, July 29, 2005
The Bible has a word to describe "safe" sex: It's called marriage.
The 1960s were known for many rebellions, among them the sexual revolution. "Free love" spilled from the hippie movement into the mainstream American culture. Premarital sex relations sanctioned by the "new morality" became openly flaunted.
One of the unexpected results of this trend, however, received little publicity. As reported by Dr. Francis Braceland, past president of the American Psychiatric Association and editor of the American Journal of Psychiatry, an increasing number of young people were admitted to mental hospitals! In discussing this finding at a National Methodist Convocation on Medicine and Theology, Braceland concluded, "a more lenient attitude on campus about premarital sex experience has imposed stresses on some college women severe enough to cause emotional breakdown."
Looking back over the years since the "new morality" was sanctioned by a high percentage of the American culture, one finds a rising number of rapes, abortions, divorces, premarital pregnancies and single-family homes, and cases of sexually-transmitted diseases, including herpes and HIV. This evidence is compelling: the old morality produced safer, healthier, and happier people!
Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.
Hebrews 13:4 (NIV)
The 1960s were known for many rebellions, among them the sexual revolution. "Free love" spilled from the hippie movement into the mainstream American culture. Premarital sex relations sanctioned by the "new morality" became openly flaunted.
One of the unexpected results of this trend, however, received little publicity. As reported by Dr. Francis Braceland, past president of the American Psychiatric Association and editor of the American Journal of Psychiatry, an increasing number of young people were admitted to mental hospitals! In discussing this finding at a National Methodist Convocation on Medicine and Theology, Braceland concluded, "a more lenient attitude on campus about premarital sex experience has imposed stresses on some college women severe enough to cause emotional breakdown."
Looking back over the years since the "new morality" was sanctioned by a high percentage of the American culture, one finds a rising number of rapes, abortions, divorces, premarital pregnancies and single-family homes, and cases of sexually-transmitted diseases, including herpes and HIV. This evidence is compelling: the old morality produced safer, healthier, and happier people!
Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.
Hebrews 13:4 (NIV)