O They Will Know We Are Christians By….
Police expect no charges in youth group diaper skit
A skit at a local Christian youth group meeting had teenage boys taking off some of their clothes, wearing adult diapers, bibs and bonnets and being spoon-fed by girls as they sat in their laps. Some say it’s just crazy, goofy teenage fun. But others, including one boy’s mother and the Mt. Lebanon School District, aren’t comfortable with it. The skit took place during the Nov. 29 meeting of the Mt. Lebanon Young Life club, a nondenominational Christian youth group directed by youth minister O.J. Wandrisco. Laurie Metz, whose 14-year-old son was one of the boys who took part in the skit, said she found it inappropriate, demeaning and sexually perverse. Mr. Wandrisco and a national spokesman for Young Life say the skits are all in fun and meant to be used as “icebreakers” at the youth group meetings…. “The skits are designed for one reason and one reason only — for kids to have fun. It’s not a dirty joke. The skits are to break down the walls and let them have fun,” Mr. Wandrisco said.
Wow, Sunday school was never like this when I was a kid. If it had been, perhaps I might have gone to church more often…though I’m not at all certain anyone would really have wanted to see my skinny, pasty white form in a diaper.
What I’m really enjoying is the idea that some parents are having conniptions over this. I suppose I really can’t blame them too much. I mean, who wants to see a 14-year-old boy in adult diapers sitting on the lap of a teenage girl…except perhaps the 14-year-old boy?
While I’m not sure anything immoral took place in the skit (Inappropriate? Well, that’s another story, isn’t it?), I did rather enjoy Dan Savage’s take on it:
Putting horny 14 year-old boys in diapers and then plopping them on the laps of teenage girls for a little spoon- and bottle-feeding… thus are life-long fetishes born. Not that I have anything against fetishes or the kind of formative life experiences that create ‘em. Far from it. I live in the house that fetishes bought.
But still. Could you imagine the uproar from Christian groups if, say, a gay youth group did something similar? Or a gay-straight student alliance?
A spokesman for the Christian youth group says they’ve done this for years‚Äö√Ñ√Æthey also do a “skit” where girls eat chocolate pudding out of adult diapers‚Äö√Ñ√Æand that Ms. Metz’ son “had fun” in that diaper. I’ll bet he did‚Äö√Ñ√Æand odds are good that he’ll be having fun in diapers for the rest of his life.
Ah, What Would Jesus Do? I think He’d probably want a clean pair of diapers, don’t you??
