Those Quirky Christians
It is 2030 in New York City. A new zoo is opening near Central Park. It is called "The American Open Center's Institute for the Study of Fundamentalist Christians."
A NYU student named Jeffina, who was born a girl to lesbian mother(s) inseminated by a homosexual man, but who decided she was really a boy at age 13 and had an operation to remove her breasts at 15, will visit. He (she) will bring his (her) partner, Laurhew, a boy by birth who has had an operation to add breasts, but retains her (his) original plumbing down low.
They will stop at the hall on Christian sexuality. Before walking through the exhibits of real, living fundamentalists in their cages, they will read copies of the 2005 Rolling Stone article by Jeff Sharlet on twenty-something Christians who are virgins.
"When they have sex with one another, they have their own kinds of orgies, because there aren't other humans there, but they are imagining Jesus is there, so it is an orgy in one sense," Laurhew will tell Jeffina, after reading Sharlet's words:
Then Joe Trippi, the political genius who managed much of Howard Dean's groundbreaking internet support and fundraising campaign in 2004, will stop by to see the spectacle.
Thinking back to the rise of evangelical political involvement during the second term of President George W. Bush, Trippi will be reminded of the country's mood in 2005, when Hannah Rosin's New Yorker piece on Patrick Henry College captured the left's growing dread over the prospect of a theocracy.
"Thank God those days are over," Trippi will say.
Jeffina, passing by at that moment, will whisper to Laurhew, "I think he just gave thanks to God," and alert zoo security. NYPD will arrive within minutes, and Trippi will be taken downtown for questioning.
A NYU student named Jeffina, who was born a girl to lesbian mother(s) inseminated by a homosexual man, but who decided she was really a boy at age 13 and had an operation to remove her breasts at 15, will visit. He (she) will bring his (her) partner, Laurhew, a boy by birth who has had an operation to add breasts, but retains her (his) original plumbing down low.
They will stop at the hall on Christian sexuality. Before walking through the exhibits of real, living fundamentalists in their cages, they will read copies of the 2005 Rolling Stone article by Jeff Sharlet on twenty-something Christians who are virgins.
"When they have sex with one another, they have their own kinds of orgies, because there aren't other humans there, but they are imagining Jesus is there, so it is an orgy in one sense," Laurhew will tell Jeffina, after reading Sharlet's words:
"Sex that is just two bodies in motion strikes them as empty, even if love is involved. Every encounter must be a kind of threesome: man, wife and the Lord. Without that, it's just f------."
Then Joe Trippi, the political genius who managed much of Howard Dean's groundbreaking internet support and fundraising campaign in 2004, will stop by to see the spectacle.
Thinking back to the rise of evangelical political involvement during the second term of President George W. Bush, Trippi will be reminded of the country's mood in 2005, when Hannah Rosin's New Yorker piece on Patrick Henry College captured the left's growing dread over the prospect of a theocracy.
Patrick Henry is trying a complicated experiment: taking young evangelicals who have been raised in rarefied, controlled atmospheres and training them to become political leaders without somehow being corrupted by the secular world’s demands—or, for that matter, moving to the middle. There are already young, ambitious politicians who talk openly about their relationship with Jesus and still get ahead.
"Thank God those days are over," Trippi will say.
Jeffina, passing by at that moment, will whisper to Laurhew, "I think he just gave thanks to God," and alert zoo security. NYPD will arrive within minutes, and Trippi will be taken downtown for questioning.
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