“I don’t think America should elect any President in 2016. We need to be single a few years and find ourselves.”-Anonymous

Let’s add another descriptor to this humorous but captivating comment. How about America stays single and “celibate” for a couple years?  During our break, we examine what healthy sexuality means for children, students, and adults?

What burns my grits about this media mess and the sexual abuse language of another politician is the normalization of sexual violence.

Who supports conversation on healthy sexuality?  The only words I have heard from politicians speak sexual assault and violence.

Where are words of healing and health?

Religious folk offer none. Politically correct have zero input. We fear healthy conversation about sexuality, and at the same time have normalized the cruelest versions of sex abuse.

Time for a break from the mess.

Sex is intimacy. Patrick Carnes states, “Sex is intimacy, into my partner I see, into me my partner sees.” Intimacy is beautiful, mutual, consensual, cognitive, emotional, spiritual.

Adam and Eve, naked and un afraid, walk intimately with the living-loving God in a gluten free, zero cholesterol, sans laundry world.  When Eve conceives, the Creator uses the term intimacy to describe their sexual union. The Hebrew word is YDA, to know experientially, spiritually, emotionally, cognitively. The latin word sexus did not appear until the middle ages to describe the difference between male and female animals. Intimacy is the original definition for sexuality.

Jesus, single and celibate, had more to say about love and intimacy with God than any other historical figure I know.

Hmmmm. No scandals for Jesus but his sacrifice on the cross where he was sexually abused bearing my shame. No videos or hot mics declaring junior high locker room vocab. His followers…sexual integrity. Paul the Apostle too was single and celibate. Rome paid historians to tell biased tales. No lurid words from the great Apostle portray private parts or the star power to abuse victims. Extant blogs feature neither blue nor purple dresses from  first century Christian leadership.

It’s time for a break, America. Let’s take a time out from normalizing sexual assault. Porn abuses. Boundary violations assault.  Neglect is abuse.  The assassin I fear…silence.

In my family’s faith story, we believe in hope, a new beginning, a resurrection from death.

Time to resurrect truth for the greatest crisis in our nation’s history…the politicizing and normalization of sexual violence.