by Lisa Nolland, Christian Today
My group, the MSC – Marriage, Sex and Culture, London – tracks the evolution of sexual norms and mores, and has been deeply concerned by the inroads of pan sexual ideology into formerly ‘safe’ institutions, including the evangelical Church.
We carry three briefs: gay conversion therapy bans, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE), and the erosion or complete loss of freedoms of speech, association etc.
However, we believe that it is not enough to “just say no” to the sexual revolution. We definitely “say no”, but then proceed to offer a non-religious apologetic based on the hard sciences, public health, sociological data and human development principles as to how and why it is destructive, and what positive, life-affirming content needs to replace it.
So why am I venturing into this realm of female dress/undress, where few are willing or able to go?
Damaging impact
I am doing so because of the feedback my group is receiving from males who are being damaged by it. Though less so, this problem is prevalent even among the devout.
In many ways, that we find ourselves here is no surprise. The Church has been on the backfoot, shamed and shut down, since the promise of orgasmic bliss by the Father of the Sex Revolution, Alfred Kinsey, duped the West.
Because the church has largely refused to ‘go there’, the indisputable facts about Kinsey which discredit his ideology or ‘religion’ are unknown. The people of God are influenced almost as much as those outside church walls, they just ‘do it’ with less ease and far greater guilt.
Cynical 20th century American journalist, HL Mencken, once quipped: “Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” Though a ludicrous caricature, it has proved hugely successful in shutting down a critical examination of the sexual revolution, sold to and bought by the general and Christian public as ‘little bits of happy, healthy, naughty fun, tee hee hee’.
But to return to my topic, how is it that ‘the world’ has encroached so successfully in terms of dress into the Church of the West?