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Op Ed: The Way Church Talked About Sex in My Youth Is Now Affecting Marriage

Op Ed: The Way Church Talked About Sex in My Youth Is Now Affecting Marriage

Friday, May 22, 2026
As a sixth grader, I went to a big Christian summer camp where the speaker said to thousands of us, “Hi, my name is Dave and I’ll be your speaker this week. I came with Lauren, my smoking hot wife.” At the time, I accepted this as fact. “That’s Dave and he has a smoking…