Having your cake or eating it.
A woman has been removed as the organist and choir director of her Catholic parish because she refused to quit her job as a sales rep for a sex toy company.
Everybody here knows that I'm not Catholic. But there are times when I will defend them to the death. This is one of those times.
In the article it is revealed that the woman had a brain tumor. The tumor and the treatment left her 'sexually dysfunctional'. So she became a sales rep for a sex toy company called "Pure Romance".
Pure Romance is a company that sells sex toys the way they used to sell Tupperware. They have a bunch of women gather at someones home and the sales rep brings in a bunch of samples, and they all place orders. She said that she wanted to help other women like her overcome sexual dysfunction....by selling them sex toys? Wait a second. Wait. Sex toys? There is a way in which a dildo or a vibrator can correct sexual dysfunction?
For the sake of argument lets assume she is talking about Anorgasmia. Anorgasmia is a condition where people have difficulty reaching orgasm even when they have proper stimulation.
So by helping women buy sex toys, she is helping them have orgasms. Sounds reasonable. Unless of course you belong to a religion that says that masturbation is wrong.
Here again I find myself asking a very specific question: If you disagree with the Catholic church and you think that masturbation is A-OK...why in the hell would you keep going to a Catholic church?
Why would you choose to remain in a religion that you disagree with?
Then the woman says how shocked she was that she was told to resign from the sex toy company. Hello? Roman Catholic church? You were surprised that the priest disapproved of you selling dildos at house parties?
Then, and this is absolutely priceless, when she was told to resign from either the choir or the sex toy company, she had this to say:
"After I got over the initial shock, I prayed over this a long time," she said. "I feel that Pure Romance is my ministry."
A dildo company is your Roman Catholic ministry?
This woman needs to be a writer for South Park. But wait! There's more!
"Father Dean made it sound so sinful," she said. "There is so much more to this business than toys."
Father Dean made it sound sinful? No, the bible did that. He was just quoting. If you disagree with his position that selling dildos is against Christianity, why are you upset about not working there? Wouldn't it be good for you to go somewhere where people agree with you?
Some people.
Make no mistake, I am far from sexually pure. But I regard my lustful actions as being wrong, and I try not to repeat them. But lady, you cannot possibly sell dildos and claim to be a Roman Catholic. Sorry, it doesn't work. You do not get to define the faith all by yourself.
-Alexion
Everybody here knows that I'm not Catholic. But there are times when I will defend them to the death. This is one of those times.
In the article it is revealed that the woman had a brain tumor. The tumor and the treatment left her 'sexually dysfunctional'. So she became a sales rep for a sex toy company called "Pure Romance".
Pure Romance is a company that sells sex toys the way they used to sell Tupperware. They have a bunch of women gather at someones home and the sales rep brings in a bunch of samples, and they all place orders. She said that she wanted to help other women like her overcome sexual dysfunction....by selling them sex toys? Wait a second. Wait. Sex toys? There is a way in which a dildo or a vibrator can correct sexual dysfunction?
For the sake of argument lets assume she is talking about Anorgasmia. Anorgasmia is a condition where people have difficulty reaching orgasm even when they have proper stimulation.
So by helping women buy sex toys, she is helping them have orgasms. Sounds reasonable. Unless of course you belong to a religion that says that masturbation is wrong.
Here again I find myself asking a very specific question: If you disagree with the Catholic church and you think that masturbation is A-OK...why in the hell would you keep going to a Catholic church?
Why would you choose to remain in a religion that you disagree with?
Then the woman says how shocked she was that she was told to resign from the sex toy company. Hello? Roman Catholic church? You were surprised that the priest disapproved of you selling dildos at house parties?
Then, and this is absolutely priceless, when she was told to resign from either the choir or the sex toy company, she had this to say:
"After I got over the initial shock, I prayed over this a long time," she said. "I feel that Pure Romance is my ministry."
A dildo company is your Roman Catholic ministry?
This woman needs to be a writer for South Park. But wait! There's more!
"Father Dean made it sound so sinful," she said. "There is so much more to this business than toys."
Father Dean made it sound sinful? No, the bible did that. He was just quoting. If you disagree with his position that selling dildos is against Christianity, why are you upset about not working there? Wouldn't it be good for you to go somewhere where people agree with you?
Some people.
Make no mistake, I am far from sexually pure. But I regard my lustful actions as being wrong, and I try not to repeat them. But lady, you cannot possibly sell dildos and claim to be a Roman Catholic. Sorry, it doesn't work. You do not get to define the faith all by yourself.
-Alexion
posted by Alexios at 8:59 PM
1 Comments:
Yet another example of just how far the permissiveness of the liberal Christian world has marched into our liturgical traditions; frankly, the amazing thing here to me, is that someone in the Roman Catholic Church (in North America) still has the gumption to tell people what they are doing is wrong. That's actually the one hopeful sign in this story.
It's not surprising though. Our culture is sex-obsessed; the creed of our contemporaries is "if it feels good, it is good." The lectionary throughout Pentecost starts with the Epistle to the Romans--doesn't it strike you how similar our society is to decadence of later Rome? We're a society of hedonists, and when someone dares tell us that we should self-deny, or worse, embrace the ascetic life, we react violently.
I, too, am far from the model of purity, chastity, and charity--but there isn't a day that goes by that I don't realize that it is me who is broken, not the Church.
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