A scholar with the Family Research Council said Wednesday that America has entered the age of pagan sexuality.
Dr. Patrick F. Fagan, director at the Family Research Council's Marriage and Religion Research Institute, made the comparison a policy lecture titled "Porn in the Dorm."
"Basically porn is now everywhere," Fagan said.
"Particular for Christians, Catholic, evangelicals, and for Jews and Muslims too, the same thing holds. This is almost like our times are a time a bit analogous to pagan Rome, where Christianity first grew up," Fagan continued. "The sexuality of pagan Rome was pretty similar to what we restored here. So, what we really have outside is a pagan sexuality which is totally different from a Christian sexuality. And I don't think enough Christians have yet put that way starkly enough to themselves. What you're really being invited with all this is entry into pagan sexuality."
Fagan continued, linking homosexuality, abortion, infidelity, pornography, euthanasia to ancient Rome.
"There's a pagan sexuality which is a pan-sexuality which is the erotic. Abortion, homosexuality, infidelity, pornography, euthanasia, infanticide all of those things were just the common sexual practice of pagan Rome and Christians were not for being very different. Monogamous, faithful, struggling, etc...you know the chastity, purity."