[First published on 10.12.08]
Last week, a pastor in Texas became a pop phenomenon when he suggested to his followers that they have more sex. It was a funny, quirky, cute story.
And it took nearly a week for the likes of Tucker Carlson to politicize it:
Overall, according to a 1997 study in the British Medical Journal, men with the most active sex lives have a death rate half that of those with the least active. Sex prolongs life.
You’d think that someone other than Ed Young would have noticed this. Maybe one of the tens of thousands of federal bureaucrats paid to worry about America’s health might have caught on and launched an ad campaign on billboards and city buses. (“Sex: It’s the Right Thing to Do,” or “Take a Minute for Couchball.”) But no. It took an evangelical.
Yes, it “took an evangelical.” Just like it took a million evangelicals to convince Bush and his subordinates that “abstinance only” could somehow be related to the idea of “education.”
Carlson has never backed down from a challenge, but he should probably quit while he’s ahead when it comes to dressing up the most anti-sex demographic on the face of the Earth as the kingpins of the activity. You can’t slap a bowtie on a pig and call it a genius.
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