DALLAS – The pastor of a mega-church says he will challenge married congregants during his sermon Sunday to have sex for seven straight days – and he plans to practice what he preaches.

“We’re going to give it a try,” said the Rev. Ed Young, who has four children with his wife.

Young, 47, said he believes society promotes promiscuity, and he wants to reclaim sex for married couples. Sex should be a nurturing, spiritual act that strengthens marriages, he said.

“God says sex should be between a married man and a woman,” Young said. “I think it’s one of the greatest things you can do for your kids because so goes the marriage, so goes the family.”

Young said he will deliver his seven-day sex challenge while sitting on a bed in front of his Dallas-area church campus.

He is founder of the nondenominational Fellowship Church.

Earlier this year, a southwest Florida pastor issued a 30-day sex challenge.

Shortest parade in NYC celebrates its 34th year

NEW YORK – Can’t rain on this New York City parade: It’s too short!

Organizers say a six-block parade after the Cornell-Columbia football game this Saturday is the city’s shortest.

The parade celebrates its 34th year by strutting down Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue, from the steps of St. Patrick’s Cathedral on 50th Street to the Cornell Club on 44th Street. When it began in the 1970s it was just one block.

By comparison, Tuesday’s Veterans Day parade stretched more than 30 blocks and last summer’s gay pride parade was more than 50.

The short parade was created by 1931 Cornell graduate Seymour “Sy” Katz to celebrate his university’s marching band. This year’s Sy Katz ’31 Parade may last only 12 minutes, but it’ll feature Cornell’s Big Red Marching Band, cheerleaders and Gov. David Paterson as grand marshal.