Offbeat Video: Christian Rap promotes "side hugs"

The most random, disturbing religion-related video I've seen this week:

Puritanical like it's going out of style. GetReligion reports:

Christians can do funny, goofy things. That’s why reaction to a Christian rap group’s video seemingly advocating the sexually chaste “Christian side hug” was so interesting. Apparently, the group was kidding. But that didn’t stop critics and bloggers for missing the joke and getting snarky about it.

As Steve Johnson of the Chicago Tribune reported in “Christian side hugs: The joke’s not on fundamentalist Christians”.

... [The] group may joke about the side hug, but as one Pentecostal pastor told The Roanoke Times last year in an article entitled, “The pastor’s holy hug: Divine but demure”:

“I have my politically correct hugs,” he said. He demonstrates by bending into a pronounced stoop to grasp the parishioner’s shoulders while pulling back at the waist. That way, the huggers’ midsections don’t touch.

Oh my gosh. I wonder what Christopher West would say?

... and if that doesn't spark a comment box flame war, I don't know what will. Happy Friday! ;-P