I haven't read the whole article, but I find the title amusing in a 'gallows humor' sort of way. I found out the hard way that sexual immorality leads to heartburn - both physical and emotional. I no longer have that particular problem in my happily married state.

I'm incredibly sorry to hear about your troubles at work, dearest friend. I was just thinking yesterday about how it's been too long since the last episode of "Dorcas and Nimrod". I'll pray that your life returns to normal quickly and completely.

As to your original question, I think it is much like what we are seeing with gay marriage - the "isn't God all about love, and not about truth?" argument. If God really loves me, he'll let me sin, in other words. Catholic teaching disagrees, so the author finds her head going one way, and her sinful heart (just like mine) going another.

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For doing the heavy lifting for me. :) What you say makes good sense. As usual.

The job of late has managed to cram 10 pounds of salmagundi into my 5-ounce-capacity head. A “second-read”, or even a “careful first read”, would likely produce an exploding skull. I get numb just thinking about it.

Why is everyone laughing?

I'm not sure, Rolley. But in the context of the paragraph, I'm not sure it matters that we understand. The point she seems to be making, as I understand it, is that left to her own devices, her vision of sexuality would look different from God's, but that's exactly why she has to learn to draw closer to God and learn to adopt His vision.

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“I struggle because it [the church’s hard teaching about sexuality] runs counter, sometimes, to who I understand God to be.” Sure wish the author had elaborated more on this (or maybe in my haste I missed it -- I’m currently in a deep, dark, corporate hole, where even light is several shades darker than heart-of-coal).

What is there between God and sexual purity that she finds counterintuitive? Anyone?