Tuesday, November 20, 2007

They welcomed sex

One myth about our early Thanksgiving celebrants is that they hated sex. According to the History News Network:

"They welcomed sex as a God-given responsibility. When one member of the First Church of Boston refused to have conjugal relations with his wife two years running, he was expelled. Cotton Mather, the celebrated Puritan minister, condemned a married couple who had abstained from sex in order to achieve a higher spirituality. They were the victims, he wrote, of a 'blind zeal.'"

I'm glad my zeal isn't blind.

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