“All we need is love,” but what is love? Today, we tend to
equate love with sexual passion. Therefore, if the passion is there, so is
love, and who can argue against that, as one 18-year old woman insisted:
- I just don’t understand why I’m judged for being happy. We are two adults who brought each other out of dark places.
This claim came from an interview found in the New York Magazine entitled, “What It’s Like to Date Your Dad.” Actually, this anonymous woman is happily engaged to
her Dad. However, relationships often sour. In this case, the woman would stand
to lose both husband and Dad in a single stroke. However, she is undeterred:
- He’s promised that if either of us decides the relationship can’t work he still wants to be there as my dad.
Passion can blind reason. In this case, the blindness is colossal!
What makes her think that if her Dad rejects her as a wife, he will still be
there as Dad!
But I think that there is a bigger issue. What if our
society encourages fatherly feelings to slip into sexual feelings? What if this
possibility becomes planted in the minds of both children and parents? Will
children still be able to regard their parents as pillars of trust and
protection or will they see their father hungering after them with the eyes of
a sexual predator? Such a change will not only redefine “family,” it will
utterly overturn a child’s source of peace and stability and parental
responsibility.
Here’s another question. Why did the New York Magazine pursue such a non-judgmental, permissive, feeling-based
interview? It almost seems like they want to make any form of sexuality as
acceptable and casual as eating apple pie. Why? Can we handle that?
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