Chastity

News flash! Village Vociearticle allows virginity as a choice in sexual expression! Hat tip to Mere Comments

Quite apart from this article, something about the chastity movement always turns me off. I think Russell Moore put his finger on it in his concise comments on this VV article over on Mere Comments. Read them here.

What he helped me to realize is that the chastity movement so often puts so much stock in personal decisions and the strength of the will of the person vowing chastity. Decision theology. My expericence of sinners, teenagers included, is that their will is so infected and their ability to make choices so twisted that any chastity emphasis must be rooted in reception of the sacraments and the gospel and prayer ... in other words in the church.