I'll admit the Old Testament is not my favorite bit of scripture to teach.
A few weeks ago, my wife got to avoid teaching this particular tale from Genesis 9:
After the whole ark business, Noah gets a bit drunk and passes out in his tent, starkers. His son Ham comes in, sees the naked dad, and he and his brothers cover Noah up.
Upon awaking, Noah learns of the thing and curses Canaan, Ham's son. Grandkid gets cursed because his dad saw grandpa's ding-dong.
Even our lesson materials has this to say:
This week, I get to avoid talking about other drunken escapades where Lot's daughters get Dad drunk and have sex so he can have, well, I don't know I guess. Descendants? Because his daughters don't count?
Our materials say this is included to show origins:
So that'll be fun. I guess it does show that you could take the daughters out of Sodom and Gomorrah, but not Sodom and Gomorrah out of the daughters.
Anyway, this is what I feel like sometimes:
We have state legislators who want daily Bible reading to be part of the public school curriculum. Fine. But they have to read these parts too.
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