A sermon at a "traditional" parish that left me uneasy

[Hoosier_Daddy]

Since my son is now 19, yes, he has been to a store. And college. And chances are now, he does know more than I am seeing. Heck, he probably knows more than I do.

But when he was 6? Nope. He didn’t. And he has said so. In fact, he has thanked me for not exposing him to some things.

So, no, you don’t have to expose them.

I think we are talking past each other.

 

[HB11]

I dont think so. We live in a world where kids are bombarded by sex at even very young ages. Listen to a country music station or a rock station or anything else. I homeschool but my kids are still bombarded by it. Watch a football game? Its there. GO to a football game it’s there. And a parent has no problem when a kid says “mommy what is contracetion” making it simple and just saying “It is when people say no to God’s plan for children”

Kids accept that. And I LOVE that my kids could be asking about that from a Homily they heard rather than “what is viagra and how does it help daddy’s golf game.” As Catholics we are funny in that we accept what the world rapes our eyes and ears with and then get uncomfortable when the sacramental and Holy nature of sex is brought up…

 

[Pax2u]

I dont think so. We live in a world where kids are bombarded by sex at even very young ages. Listen to a country music station or a rock station or anything else. I homeschool but my kids are still bombarded by it. Watch a football game? Its there. GO to a football game it’s there. And a parent has no problem when a kid says “mommy what is contracetion” making it simple and just saying “It is when people say no to God’s plan for children”

Kids accept that. And I LOVE that my kids could be asking about that from a Homily they heard rather than “what is viagra and how does it help daddy’s golf game.” As Catholics we are funny in that we accept what the world rapes our eyes and ears with and then get uncomfortable when the sacramental and Holy nature of sex is brought up…

Hoosier Daddy put my thoughts into words perfectly. The only problem I’d have with the sermon described was the length…that IS a long time to sit still (for me, anyway… I have back issues and sitting too long is tough!).

 

[Gordon_Sims]

Kids accept that. And I LOVE that my kids could be asking about that from a Homily they heard rather than “what is viagra and how does it help daddy’s golf game.” ** As Catholics we are funny in that we accept what the world rapes our eyes and ears with and then get uncomfortable when the sacramental and Holy nature of sex is brought up…**

I think that sums up perfectly one of the biggest problems we face. I’ve been scolded at people’s houses for asking that the kids either be moved to another room or the people watching football do so in another room so the kids don’t have to be exposed to the grossly inappropriate commercials, or for not letting our kids watch certain shows, movies, videos, etc. The same people are horrified by our terribly irresponsible handling of how we teach our kids about sex. In other words, we handled their questions honestly in an age appropriate manner and never punished them when, while playing family with their dolls, they pretended the wife was pregnant. In other words, our kids were taught that marriage is between a man and a woman, that the love of a husband and a wife leads to babies and that killing those babies is wrong. To some degree or another, they know that the husband and wife have to do something to make that baby and that it’s something only a husband and a wife should do. Somehow, our girls knowing that is so wrong that the whole family feels a need to point it out from time to time, but when their cousins watch and listen to the most disgustingly graphic songs and videos it doesn’t merit a mention because those things are on TV and the radio so they must be okay. I’d much rather have my kids hear about sex from a Catholic perspective during a homily than have them learn about it from Iggy Azalea videos and Cosmopolitan covers.

 

[MissRose73]

I’ve never heard any type of sex talk from the pulpit that I can recall and I’ve been to many parishes in my life. I learned more about sex from various forms of mass media and very little in religious education classes beyond waiting for marriage & a few things from the 10 Commandments. When it came to “the talk” when I was 11 years old, it consisted of my mother pulling out a medical book she had to read about puberty and periods with her.