Gay marriage is now legal in Massachusetts. Before the ballot proposal to ban gay marriage in California, Ellen got married to Portia. In almost all romantic comedies, the guy and the girl on a date end the night in bed. Viagra, Levitra, Enzyte. Products sell sex and products sell using sex. Priests fall because of sex. On Facebook, Myspace, YouTube, and all over the internet, are racy photos, videos and ads. Our culture is sex-saturated. And it’s not a healthy sexuality. In a recent survey of young and middle adults, 50% say that sex outside of marriage is not wrong at all or is only sometimes wrong. I worked in a factory during college. Guys would plaster the inside of their toolbox with pornography. I really just needed an Allen wrench, not an eye-full. During my senior year in college, Kettering University began to make all the dorms co-ed. I went to visit someone in the dorms – it was like walking through a mass orgy. Our culture is sex-obsessed. But how does our culture view the church’s stance on sex? Coming from its sex-mania, our culture probably thinks of the church and sees an image of an Amish women covered head to toe. Why is the Christian stance on sexuality often viewed that way? Sometimes Christians just don’t even want to talk about sex. Sex is dirty. But that’s not a healthy view of sexuality either. The “sex is dirty” view is about as dangerous as our culture’s sex-obsession. Sexual desire is natural. It’s almost automatic that people will express their sexuality. But because sin has corrupted what is natural, people will not automatically express their sexuality in healthy ways. So if you don’t teach about sexuality, healthy sexuality, people will (maybe privately or secretly) fulfill their sexual desires in unhealthy ways. The Scriptures are clearly not opposed to sex (read Prov. 5:15-20, The Song of Solomon, and I Corinthians 7). The church is sometimes afraid to talk about sexuality, but we shouldn’t be. Christians should have the best sex – pure sex. And the church should be the authority on sexuality – healthy sexuality.