War on St. Valentine's Day

Catholic Youth Abstaining ^ | 2.8.06 | CYA

[conserv13]

I believe this is satire but you never know!

[sinkspur]

Instead this is a day when we celebrate lust and even encourage children to take part.

Nah, it's not a satire, but it's also not a Catholic-teen-only effort. Got to be some humorless sourpuss adults driving this.

[Rytwyng]

Conserv13, it's not satire -- they really mean it. And more power to 'em.

[Vaquero]

yeah I remember that movie

[mosquitobite]

http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=159

[sinkspur]

What can you do? Don’t buy cards that leave off the Saint. Don’t buy Valentines chocolates that leave off the Saint. And don’t shop at stores that leave off the Saint.

Whew! I'm safe. I'm shopping at St. Victoria's Secret.

[conserv13]

I know about the history, but is this group really protesting this?

[Jd747bart]

Hell, taking the Saint off Saint Valentines Day is only half the problem. Alot of merchants don't even refer to Valentines day as Valentines Day but rather Friendship exchange day.

[gdani]

Wait until they see how people celebrate St. Patrick's Day!

[mosquitobite]

Why not?

[Mr. Mojo]

Alot of merchants don't even refer to Valentines day as Valentines Day but rather Friendship exchange day.

Yep, at the insistence of feminazis who maintain that "Valentine's Day" is somehow sexist.

[Servant of the 9]

Sorry, but Valentine's Day was about lust for at least a thousand years before the church tried to co-opt it.

So9

[conserv13]

From Wikipedia:

In Roman mythology, Cupid is the god of erotic love. He is equated with the Greek God Eros and one of his Latin names is Eros. He is also called Amor, Latin for love.

and:

In Ancient Rome, the day of February 15 was Lupercalia, the festival of Lupercus, the god of fertility, who was represented as half-naked and dressed in goat skins. As part of the purification ritual, the priests of Lupercus would sacrifice goats to the god, and after drinking wine, they would run through the streets of Rome holding pieces of the goat skin above their heads, touching anyone they met. Young women especially would come forth voluntarily for the occasion, in the belief that being so touched would render them fruitful and bring easy childbirth.

[DogwoodSouth]

Leaving off the "saint" is not the most worrisome attack on the Christian aspect of this holiday. This is: http://www.vday.org/main.html.

Right now, at my "conservative" southern, state-run university, the campus is plastered with flyers for "The V----a Monologues," sponsored by the university's center for women's studies... Try explaining to your kid why they can't go see this play or what a v----a is.... Tasteless, tactless and just plain gross.

[conserv13]

V-Day is a global movement to stop violence against women and girls. V-Day is a catalyst that promotes creative events to increase awareness, raise money and revitalize the spirit of existing anti-violence organizations. V-Day generates broader attention for the fight to stop violence against women and girls, including rape, battery, incest, female genital mutilation (FGM) and sexual slavery.

What is wrong with that?

[gdani]

Try explaining to your kid why they can't go see this play or what a v----a is.... Tasteless, tactless and just plain gross

I've never seen the Vagina Monologues and have no plan to. But you seem to think there's something inherently wrong with the word itself and/or explaining what it is to a child.

Better you should explain it than one of his/her school chums.

[DogwoodSouth]

I don't think that there's anything wrong with the word.I simply choose not to use it with the realization that this site can be read by children of any age and I try to respect their presence by tempering my words. It's not my business to "educate" them on such matters.

I am not a teetotaller - I love theatre and appreciate that alot of entertainment with "adult" content. This particular play is rife with adult content (and just plain pointless perversion... but I digress) yet it is blanket-marketed to the public by the university. I don't think that I stand alone in my condemnation of such inconsideration. I totally agree with you that it is my (i.e. the family's) responsibilty to educate their child(ren) about such matters - that's what outrages me about the production (and its non-discriminating advertising).

[DogwoodSouth]

BTW... there's nothing wrong with attempting to eradicate sexual violence. In fact, such an intention is commendable (in my book). There are simply more tasteful ways of going about it. It strikes me as humorous (not to mention contradictory and disingenuous) that those who scream the loudest about the governmental protection of "privacy" rights, are the same-said ones who are very often just as vocal about publicly discussing their privates. ;-)

[Tired of Taxes]

I agree with you about the whole V-Day and V-Monologues stuff being tasteless. And I'm a woman. I also happened to participate for a time as part of an internet group that counseled women out of DV relationships. So I understand how things can go so far that women become man-haters. Still, all the V-stuff takes things way too far.

[Salvation]

**What can you do? Don’t buy cards that leave off the Saint.**

BTTT