"The chastity of widows and virgins is above the chastity of marriage."How to put this gently. How about NO! WRONG! ABSOLUTELY NOT!
Saint Augustine
Chastity is one of those either or issues. You are or you aren't. There is no way of being more or less chaste.
By the way, as I've said before, there is nothing about virginity that guarantees chastity. You can be utterly untouched by anyone else or yourself and still be unchaste.
*Self-righteous twerp.
So right Jules. It seems to me that SRT has a bias against sex or women or both. If the problem is catechesis, as you alluded to a few days ago in another post about something that was being passed off as Church teaching, then that says to me that either the catechizers he was exposed to told him this, or he chose to ignore what they did tell him.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of chastity, I had watched the Camille Paglia video you have posted on the left on the NY Times website this morning. I've always liked Camille, in part, because she dared to challenge, as she puts it, the feminist anti-sex tyrants, and she paid a price for it. Though she received her Doctorate from Yale, no Ivy League school would hire her. I'll never forget a news conference, probably going back to the 80s or 90s, where Gloria Steinem and Naomi Wolfe (who has since mellowed a bit) refused to allow her to speak and told the camera crews to turn off their lights and mics. They should have welcomed her voice, instead they were threatened by it.
ReplyDeleteCamille makes a lot of sense (well, she is italian), even her defense of the Church and the seminal role it played in the development of Western Civilization. What she's saying here is on target, the withering away of those tyrants, the exclusionary tactics of the early Feminists, the Feminist movement being an arm of the Democratic Party, Sarah Palin, etc.
I haven't watched the video yet but I agree about Paglia. I never agreed with everything she said but she got it right in saying that a lot of feminists were just anti-sex. It took tremendous courage to do what she did.
ReplyDeleteShe is a very courageous woman and, this might sound strange, I've always detected the same kind of sympatico--maybe its just me or because we're both italian--that people ascribed to John XXIII. I didn't agree with everything she said either, but I think she has always understood what Feminism really means better than the major leaders of the movement.
ReplyDeleteI think the Gay Rights movement has succumbed to the same fate as Feminism for different reasons. I saw on C-Span last night the Log Cabin Republicans Annual Dinner, which featured several Conservative speakers who are in support of Gay Rights. The leaders of the Gay movement think of Gay Republicans as hypocrites.