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Now why can’t all religious instructions be like this?

Post author By Orac
Post date March 1, 2008
14 Comments on Now why can’t all religious instructions be like this?

I’ve always been a bit skeptical of most recommendations by religious figures, but for once I’ve come across one that I can whole-heartedly support:

Florida pastor Paul Wirth wants his parishioners to make love — a whole lot of love.

The pastor for Relevant Church in Ybor City is challenging the couples in his congregation to get busy in bed every night for a month.

Wirth said the supposed 50 percent divorce rate is the reason behind the 30-Day Sex Challenge.

He said too many couples let the stress of jobs and daily life get in the way of intimacy.

So far, so good. But wait! There’s a catch:

But there’s a catch to the pastor’s every day sex challenge — it’s for married couples only.

Unmarried people — even if they are in a long-term relationship or living with someone — are asked to abstain from sex for 30 days.

I knew it was too good to be true–at least if you’re unmarried. I hesitate to think what the pastor’s reaction would be to gay or lesbian couples.

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Orac is the nom de blog of a humble surgeon/scientist who has an ego just big enough to delude himself that someone, somewhere might actually give a rodent's posterior about his copious verbal meanderings, but just barely small enough to admit to himself that few probably will. That surgeon is otherwise known as David Gorski.

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