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From: larry@cci-bdc.UUCP (Larry DeLuca)
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Subject: Re: St. Paul and Homosexuality (III)
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Date: Tue, 26-Mar-85 12:38:34 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 26 12:38:34 1985
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> > And the literalism of those 
> > who seize upon revisionist theories ("this term didn't refer to my 
> > particular type of sexual experience") is no less problematic than the 
> > literalism of the fundamentalist who finds God's condemnation of all 
> > sexual expression except the "missionary" position! 
> 
> Now wait a minute; I know a bunch of "fundamentalists" (in quotes
> because it is a term used by others and not necessarily accepted
> by themselves), and I don't know anyone who "finds God's condemnation
> of all sexual expression except the 'missionary' position."  (I have
> to admit that I haven't asked everyone I know.)  What "fundamentalists"
> believe that, and on what basis?
> 
> Gary Samuelson  (accused of fundamentalism)
> ittvax!bunker!garys

I was raised VERY catholic (read:  years upon years of cathecism).  in
a religious instruction class in the eleventh grade we had a "frank"
discussion on sexuality.

	"Anything that does not contribute directly to the 
	conception of children or that rules out that possibility
	altogether is prohibited.

	"This is not to say that, uh, variations are in themselves
	sinful, so long as the sex act itself contributes to 
	procreation."

we only got as far as the word 'variations' when we were asking, so i don't
know whether they were discussing oral sex or something like woman on
top.  i'm not sure i remember the rest of the evening exactly but i
was left vaguely with the impression that something like oral sex might
be OK as foreplay, but that intercourse had better occur somewhere along
the line.

This was especially interesting, because by the time i was in 8th grade,
our parish no longer had a convent that regularly sent over nuns to teach,
so we were instructed by lay teachers (generally parishioners who were
fairly active in the church community and received additional instruction
in religious education).

					larry...


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