Evan Urquhart

First let me say that I don't in any way begrudge asexual people's inclusion under the LGBTQ umbrella, mainly because I can't think of even the smallest bit of harm including them could do.

However, it's not as simple as saying that compulsory sexuality exists and leaving it there. The opposite attitude coexists in our culture: Sexual desire is still stigmatized as dirty, unseemly, and wrong- and this was much more true at the dawn of what's now the LGBTQ movement.

It's true that our mainstream culture is quite sexualized, and lacking sexual desire is seen as deficient. But in Christianity, sex is closely connected with sin. In the early church celibacy was the ideal and marriage was reserved for those who weren't able to be celibate.

The celibacy of the Catholic priesthood is a remnant from those times. And we all know that Christian sex education starts and ends with abstinence, which is presented as a straightforward matter of resisting the temptation to sin.

Devout Christians are horrified by the way sex is glorified by popular culture, and in many communities public sexlessness, prudishness, and chastity is still rigidly enforced as right and proper and conforming to God's will.