Can we please put this non-issue to rest already? Christine O’Donnell is a Catholic. The Catholic Church has always taught that masturbation, in particular, male masturbation, is a sin. The Old Testament upholds the fact that masturbation is a sin, in the story of Onan. Christine was professing her faith. Period. End of story.
ALL Christians should be as supportive of Christine as she is in her faith.
The story of Onan upholds the fact that performing coitus interruptus and ejaculating onto the ground when your father commands you to impregnate your levirate wife is a sin. It has no application to masturbation, unless one is masturbating to avoid impregnating his levirate wife and thus deny his dead brother a legal son.
(Fun fact: After going through two husbands, the woman in the story disguised herself as a prostitute and had sex with their father. This produced the sought-after sons, one of whom was an ancestor of Jesus·)
Can we please put this non-issue to rest already?
Indeed I have tried to do exactly that in my own post. It probably didn’t come across as that, but my real point was not to make some big deal about it. Some loser masturbates and does porn, so what? Just because a religion considers something sinful does not mean that they are somehow interested in imposing it on everyone else. The idea of anyone admitting their beliefs is actually good, as Christine O’Donnell did in this situation. The people who you should worry about are the hypocrites, and the ones who don’t admit as to what is religion to them (i.e. abortionists, AGW, and SSM advocates) because the people who don’t admit what is religion to them turn out bad science and try to impose the view on everyone else.