Monday, February 1, 2010

Church's 'Hanky Panky Challenge' significantly less sexy for unmarried couples

Posted by Nadia Pflaum on Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 2:00 PM

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Timmy Gibson has issued a challenge to the married couples in his congregation: "engage in hanky panky every day for the month of February."



The pastor of Mercy Church, which meets every Sunday at Indian Hills Middle School in Prairie Village, Kansas, is more frank in his frequent blogs addressing issues of sex: He advises married couples to buy a copy of the Kama Sutra ("I encourage the cartoon drawing ones," he writes) and try different positions, and while he thinks porn is sinful, he says oral sex and sex toys are perfectly OK with the Big Guy Upstairs.

The sex-every-day challenge is reminiscent of two recently published books. 365 Nights, published in 2008, was written by Charla Muller, a self-proclaimed Christian woman who sought to improve her marriage by banging her husband every night for a year. The other, Just Do It, is a more secular read, penned by journalist Douglas Brown after his wife of 14 years, Annie, suggested that they have sex for 100 consecutive days. (With each other.)

Unmarried folks who can stomach the entirety of Pastor Gibson's

surfer-dude spiel in the following video may be disappointed to learn

that his challenge for singles is a real boner-killer: no sex for the entire month of February. (He encourages lots of backrubs and foot massages, instead.)

We

imagine that the members of Gibson's flock who accept either version of

his challenge will feel relieved when the shortest month comes to an

end.

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youre all kind of ignorant.

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Posted by guest on 06/02/2011 at 4:24 PM

But now I have come to consider that the whole world is an mystery, a harmless riddle that is made terrible by our own nutty attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

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Posted by Fredia Wimer on 10/06/2010 at 9:55 AM

Excuse me? Hanky panky for 28 straight days? That's going to seriously cut into my facebook time, my TV time, my sleep time, and my screwing off doing nothing time.
And how does he know that "the BIG GUY" upstairs is okay with sex toys and oral, but NOT porn? Did God tell him that, or did he just use God to justify his own carnal desires? Probably...

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Posted by podunkboy on 02/01/2010 at 7:30 PM

This gives new piquancy to the phrase, "None of your goddamn business."

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Posted by Tom on 02/01/2010 at 2:40 PM

Why is Keith Urban working as a pastor in a KC burb?

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Posted by Kerry ES on 02/01/2010 at 2:13 PM
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