Good Hope, Alabama up in arms over local preacher discussing s-e-x in church.

[Bluebear]

GOOD HOPE, Ala. -- ...Daystar Church, whose congregation has grown dramatically under Pastor Jerry Lawson, has run up against the sensibilities of a conservative North Alabama community with a monthlong focus on sex.

Sex just isn't an appropriate topic for church, some say, and others are upset over the church's signs, which advertise the sermon series and accompanying Web site.


Belew discusses his opposition to s-e-x in church

Evangelist Roland Belew, a self-described fundamentalist and former trucker who now preaches at a truck stop, said the whole idea goes against the teaching of New Testament apostles.

"Paul said preach the Gospel," Belew said. "Talking about sex ain't gonna get nobody to heaven."

The controversy is a bit ironic considering the church's overall point is about as straight-laced as they come: that God intends for sex to be enjoyed solely within a heterosexual marriage, and that anything else — adultery, pornography, homosexuality, even "sexual arousal" outside of marriage — is sin.

http://www.mercurynews.com/religion/ci_11954583

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1. The South is the most massively hypocritical area of America

There's more sex going on there, and in more varieties than in New York City and San Francisco combined, yet talking about sex somehow goes against religion? Its a regional joke that right after Sunday service, people would go out behind the church and make out all day.