http://www.marksimpson.com/blog/2008/01/16/the-sex-terror-revisited/ The 'Father' of the Metrosexual, the Retrosexual & Spawner of Sporno Mon, 22 Mar 2010 05:32:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.marksimpson.com/blog/2008/01/16/the-sex-terror-revisited/comment-page-1/#comment-3674 Mark S Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:26:01 +0000 http://www.marksimpson.com/blog/2008/01/16/the-sex-terror-revisited/#comment-3674 Yes, of course, you're absolutely right - thanks for pointing that out. I don't know why I used the expression 'Founding Fathers', other than it sounded nice. Will change it. Yes, of course, you’re absolutely right – thanks for pointing that out. I don’t know why I used the expression ‘Founding Fathers’, other than it sounded nice. Will change it.

]]> http://www.marksimpson.com/blog/2008/01/16/the-sex-terror-revisited/comment-page-1/#comment-3673 David Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:22:35 +0000 http://www.marksimpson.com/blog/2008/01/16/the-sex-terror-revisited/#comment-3673 Whatever problems exist with American attitudes to sex, you can't really lay the blame with the Founding Fathers. They were for the most part Deists. It is a myth the Christian Right push, that America was founded on Christian principles. Yet in a 1796 treaty with Tripoli it was stated that the United States was "in no sense founded on the Christian religion". The original ideas were based more on Enlightenment principles. Those ideas were watered down and reworded by later congresses. Whatever problems exist with American attitudes to sex, you can’t really lay the blame with the Founding Fathers. They were for the most part Deists. It is a myth the Christian Right push, that America was founded on Christian principles. Yet in a 1796 treaty with Tripoli it was stated that the United States was “in no sense founded on the Christian religion”. The original ideas were based more on Enlightenment principles. Those ideas were watered down and reworded by later congresses.

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