How do you reinstate christian teachings and values on sex?

Answer 1

First we need to understand whether Christian teachings and values are indeed the same thing. Christianity has always taught sexual abstinence outside marriage and has taught against homosexual relationships, but the practice has never followed the teaching. If Christian values are what people do rather than what they say, then sex before marriage and gay relationships seem to have always been part of those values. Many Catholic popes have been sexually promiscuous and some even homosexual - usually covertly, but Pope Paul II (1464-1471) is described as openly homosexual. The evidence is that Christians have always been promiscuous, and not just the Christian leaders.

I doubt whether Christian teachings on moral issues have changed much and need reinstating to their former standards. We can go to any church or religious gathering and learn the same message. If we want Christians to take those teachings seriously and adopt them as personal values, we need priests and pastors who can get that message across with conviction. Teachings against gay relationships are a special case, because they can be adopted as values by some heterosexuals but by few gays.

Of course, Christian values are for Christians, and Western nations are increasingly secular. It would be improper and perhaps un-Christian to attempt to force specific Christian values onto people who are not Christians.

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