Punishment For Being

You may have heard about the obscene behavior of Virginia law enforcement in the case of a 17-year-old sexting his girlfriend:

A Virginia teen is facing two felony charges after he was caught sexting with his girlfriend.

If he's convicted, he could be forced to register as a sex offender and spend time in jail.

Trey Sims, 17, was charged with manufacturing and distributing child pornography in January, while exchanging texts with his then-girlfriend, who was 15 at the time. His iPhone and iPad were seized by police, and he was taken into custody.

And by now, just about everybody's heard of SCOTUS making it more probable that any given employer will be free to create a work environment that feels pretty hostile to any woman looking to take charge of what does or doesn't happen to/with/in her own body.

This kinda shit is happening because the default position in our little Christian-dominated establishment is to punish sexual behavior (ours, not theirs btw).  They have to.  If they don't, then they lose the power to keep us in line.

Adam and Eve "sinned; they were disobedient" - and never mind the metaphorical baloney about trees and fruits and the knowledge of good and evil.  It makes for a pretty good story, but the guys who wrote the book were very much in agreement that it was really all about the sex because the thing they concentrated on - the thing everybody remembers about it - is that god curses all womankind with dreadful pain during childbirth - and how does she get pregnant?  Yeah.  

So they conclude that sex is what Original Sin is all about.  No sex, no sin; so sex must be bad, so sex must be punished.  Except of course that we need you to procreate, so we'll make up some more bullshit and call it "necessary evil" (and don't get me started on the brilliance of that bit of holy entrapment).

So anyway, if sex is OK, then there's no sin, which means there's no Fall of Man, which means there's no need for redemption, which means we don't need a Redeemer, which means we don't need Jesus, which means nobody shows up on Sunday to pay the preacher's mortgage absorb the teachings of holy scripture (which conveniently seem always to fit the GOP Platform), which means Theo-Con Politicians lose elections, which means they can't protect the church's tax-exempt status and to reciprocate the church's largesse by figuring out ways around the law in order to pump more public dollars into church coffers, and on and on and on.

So they have to punish us for sex.  If they don't, their whole thing collapses in on itself.

And also too - why do you think these buttheads rail so loud and so long and so often against Evolution?  Because evolution actually rewards us for sex, which can't be tolerated for all the old reliable reasons.  No Adam and Eve = No Fall = No Jesus = No Church = No Money = No Power.