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March 20, 2007

Therapist Urges Clergy Out of the Closet

A Christian therapist is advising pastors to come clean about their sexual addictions before they are "outed." He also says that likely half of Christian clergy and church members are "in a losing struggle with pornography and related behaviors."

I want to know where this guy's going to church.

I've known a few Christian leaders who were perverts – child molesters and serial adulterers – but they have been few and far between. The last church where I was a member had two pastors who were as pure as the driven snow, and I'm betting that is the case for most of them. So I just have to wonder what's up with this therapist.

Only two possibilities come to mind. One, he is so uptight that he thinks any sort of keen interest in sex is perversion – in which case I'm sure at least half of Christians are sexual perverts. Or two, he is actually working for the Dark Side and trying to con Christians into coming out of the closet in order to discredit Christianity altogether. Being that the second possibility is conspiratorial nonsense, I'll have to go with my first thought.

The Christian faith would be so much better off if they would just accept the notion that God made sex a driving force on purpose – because he wanted people to be greatly rewarded for developing close relationships with their partner. Or maybe it was because otherwise, we would run out of people. I guess the answer depends on whether you're Protestant or Catholic.

All joking aside, the real story here is that if he is correct, then it's true that sexual repression is a problem throughout Christendom. Most of us realize that if you push your urges down or neglect them where they're supposed to be, they will pop up somewhere else – where they probably ought not to be.

Posted by Becky at March 20, 2007 09:58 AM