When I was young, I always imagined I would be married by 25 and have a brood of kids. Jesus said in the Gospel of Matthew to "make disciples," and I thought it would be cool to take that verse literally and have 12 kids. I wanted enough kids to fill a baseball team, a hockey bench and a big house full of love.

That obviously didn't happen.

Or it hasn't happened yet. But I love my life. I spent last weekend learning how to scull on the Potomac River. I have good friends, a great family, hobbies and one of the best jobs I've ever had.

Do I feel a void because I'm not married and I don't have children yet? Sure. Do I wish I were having sex? Of course.

But I believe that I'm living a fuller, better life because of my commitment to sexual integrity. I spend all day, every day doing the things that I want to do, because I'm not wasting my time worrying about waking up next to a stranger, contracting a sexually transmitted infection or missing a period.

The truth is, I am able to live the feminist dream because I'm not stressing over the things that sex outside of marriage often brings. And I'm not alone.

A recent study in the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior showed that young people - specifically millennials - are now more than twice as likely to be sexually inactive than the previous generation.

Although there are many possible causes for this shift, it's quite reasonable to believe that this generation doesn't want the stresses that sex outside of marriage brings - unplanned pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections, to name a few.

Maybe they realise that a condom doesn't protect the heart, and that true love is something worth waiting for and fighting for. Continue reading

• Kate Bryan is a writer in Washington, D.C., who has worked for conservative and anti-abortion organizations.

Sergeant Brock Davis said the tops would be sent to the department which would decide, after consulting with police, whether the owners of theImpuls'd store which sells them would be charged with any criminal offences.

In 2008 the Censor banned one of these T Shirts. In his judgement Bill Hastings said:
"The injury to the public good that is likely to be caused by the availability of this T-shirt originates from the manner in which it associates an aggressive and misogynistic meaning of the "harsh, brutal and generally unacceptable" word c### with Jesus Christ, and depicts an image of a chaste woman engaging in sexual activity. A fair interpretation of the messages conveyed by this T-shirt is that Christians should be vilified for their religious beliefs, and that women, including chaste and celibate women, cannot stop themselves engaging in sexual activity…" (OFLC No. 800513)

The censor also said the T shirt:

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A new edition of the Old Testament one of the most popular editions of the Bible also substitutes

• "spoils of war" for "booty",
• "burnt offerings" for "holocaust" and
• "grain" instead of "cereal".

Associate director for Bible utilisation at the United State Conference of Catholic Bishops, Mary Elizabeth Sperry says, "the new text helps clarify some outdated language".

"Booty," which has come to have a sexual connotation, was changed to "spoils of war." "Cereal," which many think of as breakfast food, became "grain" to reference loads of wheat and the new translation merely elaborates on the original Hebrew word, almah, which may, or may not, signify a virgin.

"It's not a new Bible; it's not a new story. It's the same text you've known but hopefully youll be able to see it in great detail".

The new translation is the work of nearly 50 scholars from all faiths and a committee of the American Catholic Bishops' conference. The revisions are said to more accurately reflect the translations of ancient Hebrew and Greek, but also more contemporary.

The Bishops' say they are not signaling any sort of change in doctrine,

"Some people will be gravely distressed and others will be absolutely ecstatic and some will just say, 'I liked it the old way.' Sperry said.

A best-seller, the New Amerian Bible sold more than 1 million copies last year.

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