In the view of our nation's progressive elites, sexual obesity in
children is the best solution to what currently ails them.
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• the large difference offered by condoms in preventing
pregnancy and preventing infection, even if condoms are
consistently and well used;
• the large difference offered by condoms in preventing
infection when used for vaginal versus anal intercourse;
• the large difference between a young and more mature
cervix for the reception of infectious diseases;
• the large difference between the vagina and the rectum
for the reception of infectious diseases; and
• how chlamydia, even if cured with antibiotics, still
renders women unable to bear a child to term because its scars
cause ectopic pregnancies and its antibodies attack the embryo
causing miscarriages.
The "abstinence-only" instruction in the Archives
study included material showing the students that
"abstinence can foster attainment of future goals." Future
goals should include marriage and parenthood. Dr. Grossman's book
addresses the protection of one's fertility to achieve these
goals. So, too, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine
has a website
by that name, and it declares:
"Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are a leading cause
of infertility and often have no symptoms. Behaviors you engage
in before you are ready to have children can impact your future
ability to conceive. STIs can cause infertility in men and
women." Future goals should also include staying out of
prison and instruction given pursuant to the Wisconsin bill will
ensure that young people will know about criminal penalties for
engaging in sexual behavior and the consequences of being labeled
a sex offender.
IT IS INTERESTING TO COMPARE and contrast the "food ed"
proposed by First Lady Michelle Obama at a press conference on
February 9 with sex-ed. (The
transcript of her remarks is online.
Details of the elements of her plan are online.) As with
premarital sex, she spoke of the threat obesity poses to a
child's future:
"We're here today because we care deeply about the health
and well-being of these kids…And we're determined to finally
take on one of the most serious threats to their future: the
epidemic of childhood obesity in America today… Military
leaders report that obesity is now one of the most common
disqualifiers for military service. Economic experts tell us
that we're spending outrageous amounts of money treating
obesity-related conditions like diabetes, heart disease and
cancer. And public health experts tell us that the current
generation could actually be on track to have a shorter
lifespan than their parents."
Like the epidemic of STIs among our youth, she noted that
"over the past three decades, childhood obesity rates in America
have tripled; that nearly one third of children in America are
now overweight or obese…"
As with premarital sex among our youth, there is a
psychological cost: "But these numbers don't paint the full
picture…This isn't just about inches and pounds or how our kids
look. It's about how our kids feel, and how they feel about
themselves."
Just as abstinence fully prevents pregnancy, STIs, and HIV,
she asserted that childhood obesity is "eminently curable" and we
know the cure. She laid the blame for the growth of childhood
obesity on adults, especially parents, who do not provide
information about nutrition to their children, who do not cook
and serve healthy meals, who do not ensure that their children
have, and take, the opportunity for exercise. Similarly, parents
and other adults do not provide our youths with enough accurate
and comprehensive information about how abstinence can help a son
or daughter achieve his or her lifetime goals, about why
protecting one's fertility matters, about why staying out of
prison is important, about respecting another's dignity.
In conclusion, First Lady Obama declared,
"So much of what we all want for our kids isn't within
our control. We want them to succeed in everything they do. We
want to protect them from every hardship and spare them from
every mistake. But we know we can't do all of that. What we can
do...what is fully within our control...is to give them the
very best start in their journeys. What we can do is give them
advantages early in life that will stay with them long after
we're gone." So too, the purpose of sex ed is to give our
children "the very best start in their journeys."
On the same day, February 9, First Lady Obama was
expounding on "food ed," Oprah Winfrey interviewed
some Catholic nuns. Over and over again, Oprah turned to issues
concerning sex: about their dating habits before they became
nuns, their "sexual urges," whether abstaining from sex impacted
them psychologically, and their willingness to abstain from sex
for a lifetime. One of them responded, in a way that Oprah might
understand, that the decision to give up men would no more affect
her sanity than abstaining from chocolate.
There are large numbers of adults who believe that it is
good for children to restrain their appetite for play to obtain
an education (a project that may last for two decades) and their
appetite for food to obtain life-long health. And they believe
their children are capable of restraining these appetites. At the
same time, there are large numbers of adults who believe either
that it is a good for children to engage in intercourse or, if it
is not a good, they are incapable of restraining their sexual
appetite.
The children of today are no different than the children of
yesteryear. They are capable of restraining their sexual appetite
-- even until marriage. It is the adults of today who have
changed from the adults of yesteryear.
Excellent analysis Mr. Thunder. Should we stop trying to keep
people alive because they won't stop dying? Should we stop
promoting marriage because people divorce? Should we stop
promoting good health because people have weaknesses for sweets?
Should we stop teaching our children to abstain from sex simply
because some of them give in to their urges?
Absolutely not.
Simply put, there are myriad benefits to promoting abstinence.
How ridiculous is the fact that we even have to have this debate,
that you have to write this article -- especially where we're
talking about kids as young as 10 years old?
How differently would men look at women if they were accustomed
to controlling their urges? Might this change or affect the
occurrences of rape? Even if it just "might" help with many of
these issues -- which it obviously does -- it is still worth
it.
And this study shows that.
Alan Brooks| 2.19.10 @ 6:00PM
First we have to stop over-glorifying sex as being
"beautiful".
All my life I've been told sex is good. no it isn't, it is
pleasurable, not good.
Morality is confused with aesthetics,
as pleasure is confused with happiness.
If sex were good then prostitutes would be our best
citizens;
if sex were good we could elect pimps to public office (no jokes,
please).
K Ralph| 2.19.10 @ 8:28PM
Sex is good when confined to it's proper role - that is in the
case of marriage between a man and a woman, who desire to commit
fully to each other and none other. Sex can be very, very good -
not just pleasurable. You have mistaken "sex" for "lust" or the
using of one's body for economic plunder. It can be an essential
part of creating "oneness" out of two.
Alan Brooks| 2.19.10 @ 10:34PM
K Ralph,
Your's above is semantics. Whether you call it lust or sex, it is
still an animal appetite, whether or not it results in the union
of two into one.
A man and wife can pig out on lust and con themselves into
thinking they are pious. Self deception means a man and wife can
be grossly overweight slobs who think they are making love when
they are in reality rutting like pigs.
I am interested in genuine Christianity, not white trash fake
religion.
Alan Brooks| 2.20.10 @ 8:04PM
Have no idea whatsoever what to do about government; recently
realized I had been thoroughly out-of-touch, like a blind man
touching one part of an elephant but not comprehending the larger
animal at all.
Am not progressive anymore, too old fashioned, think of religion
more & more;
as escapism, yes, no doubt about it; yet hasn't politics become
escapist? hasn't politics merged with celebrity culture to become
sort-of TV Program writ Large? One part 'Survivor', the other
half 'Jerry Springer'.
Not all religious orgs are coercive, some can use moral suasion
without promoting religion itself. Religion and morality can be
compartmentalized so that morality promotion becomes subsidiary
to the primary function of the given religious org as anodyne and
family counselor.
End of life counseling is v. important.
meilan| 2.21.10 @ 1:51AM
How differently would men look at women if they were accustomed
to controlling their urges?
Rank and File, Thank you for your comments. I totally agree with
you.
Tony in Central PA| 2.19.10 @ 9:47AM
The article did well to expose the kind of cultural doublethink
that so often goes on these days with respect to the subject of
human sexuality. I would argue that the prevailing attitudes
about human sexuality in most of the West these days has created
an ethos that is quite simply unsustainable. ( Liberals, take
your best shot at refuting this assertion ).
My sister - in -law is a family practice MD who all too often
treats high school girls from apparently good families for STD's.
She has to tell a significant number of them that they will not
likely be able to have children. Somewhat surprisingly, she
reports most of them seem unfazed by this news. Maybe this
reaction is the result of the consistent brainwashing kids are
getting that the least important purpose of sex is having
children.
Alan Brooks| 2.19.10 @ 6:18PM
"She has to tell a significant number of them that they will not
likely be able to have children."
Why should they have children? abstinence is best on all
counts.
Be fruitful and multiply?
America will have plenty of births in the years to come from
immigrants both legal and not.
Alan Brooks| 2.19.10 @ 6:47PM
a. Saltpeter and paxil milkshakes in skool
cafeterias.
b. Cold showers in skool gyms.
c. More abstinence ideals being taught in skools.
d. Chastity belts as presents for Christmas.
SDome of us have the radical notion that kids shouldn't be having
sex, especially when it means the behavior can needlessly result
in a lifetime of closed options and suffering as a result. For
the same reasons, kids shouldn't be allowed to play with guns or
eat whatever they want whenever they want it. Comprende ?
A simple question: why do liberals, through their words, behavior
and policies, seem to want to encourage children to become
sexually active?
(I hope there is a different answer which follows but my own
answers to the above question would be:
1. Liberals' collective goal is to rule over as many people as
possible, and research and history have shown that a debauched
populace is much easier to control.
2. Liberals, and man in general, do not like objective truth, but
rather want to set the rules themselves. To most people, there is
nothing quite so intimate as one's sexuality; therefore, that is
the area where many people least like to be told what to do (or
perhaps I should see, FEEL like they're being told what to do),
making it prime territory for rebellion and encouragement of the
same.
3. Dr. Laura Schlessinger once said "Guilt likes to recruit".
Many of these people setting (or better said, removing) the rules
may have much in their past that they feel guilty about...but if
they help others make similar mistakes (and get on a path to
become as equally miserable) their remorseful feelings are
assuaged. At least temporarily so.)
Mick| 2.19.10 @ 3:45PM
KJW, you nailed it! The government schools and many of the recent
generation of parents actually train the children to think of
themselves as the center of the universe not being constrained by
absolutes of right and wrong but are invited to decide for
themselves using any internal ethics system of their choice to
determine what is right for them.
Interesting, wasn't there a serpent in some garden somewhere that
sold the same bill of goods (lie) to another young woman, how is
that working out?
jd| 2.19.10 @ 5:49PM
KJW and Mick,
Right on! Both of you have said it well.
Alan Brooks| 2.19.10 @ 6:22PM
"Many of these people setting (or better said, removing) the
rules may have much in their past that they feel guilty
about...but if they help others make similar mistakes (and get on
a path to become as equally miserable) their remorseful feelings
are assuaged. At least temporarily so.)"
Occam's razor would say they simply are titillated by it all.
Perv sells, baby. And all of you know it. let;s cut out the
injured innocence, you have no idea how many laugh at your
naivite'.
Appleby| 2.19.10 @ 12:23PM
Given the obsessive Marching Mommies who relentlessly scream
MORBIDLY OBESE! at anyone who doesn't resemble a Stick Figure,
and who make sure that every child understands that the more she
weighs, the more likely she will be dead before morning and how
tired we all are of hearing it...
I suggest we kill two birds with one stone and encourage girls to
gain weight (it NEVER matters what boys look like, after all) and
then they will not have to worry about sex, since as the Marching
Mommies assure us, girls who weigh more than 98 lb. are not
attractive to boys or men.
The girls will be much happier and the whole problem will be
solved.
CJohnson| 2.19.10 @ 2:05PM
Why in all this sex ed curricula crap is there NEVER any
discussion with teens about birth defect risks from unplanned
pregnancies. Do teens get to observe FAS, FES, and preemies with
learning difficulties caused by poor prenatal care, drug/alcohol
use and lack of good nutrition?
Don| 2.19.10 @ 5:41PM
Finally!
Is it any wonder I call conservatives morons and liberals
idiots?
You state what I have been waiting for some one to say. Underage
people do not have the right of consent. Teaching them this at
least protects them for up until eighteen which as we all know is
still quite young.
Alan Brooks| 2.19.10 @ 6:29PM
But conservatives too teach sex is 'beautiful'.
Or at least they use the Bible to (often) infer that there is
something sacred about sex.
I say hush this cry of sex being scared 'til a thousand years
have past.
----------------------------------------------
Saltpeter and paxil milkshakes in skool cafeterias.
Cold showers in skool gyms.
More abstinence ideals being taught in skools.
Chastity belts as presents for Christmas.
Alan Brooks| 2.19.10 @ 6:32PM
errata: sacred, not "scared".
But, without joining Julia's Junior Anti-Sex League, I say hush
this cry of over-glorified sexuality 'til a thousand years have
past.
Alan Brooks| 2.19.10 @ 6:39PM
Hot off the presses:
(AFP) – British pop superstar Elton John stirred controversy in a
magazine interview Friday when he claimed that Jesus Christ was
"gay."
"I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who
understood human problems," John said in an interview posted on
the website of US celebrity news magazine Parade.
"On the cross, he forgave the people who crucified him. Jesus
wanted us to be loving and forgiving. I don't know what makes
people so cruel. Try being a gay woman in the Middle East --
you're as good as dead," said John, who is gay.
The Catholic League, the largest US Catholic rights group,
condemned the comments.
"Jesus was certainly compassionate, but to say he was
'super-intelligent' is to compare the son of God to a successful
game-show contestant," league president Bill Donohue said in a
statement.
"More seriously, to call Jesus a homosexual is to label him a
sexual deviant. But what else would we expect from a man who
previously said, 'From my point of view, I would ban religion
completely'?"
Alan Brooks| 2.19.10 @ 6:45PM
Coming Next:
"Jesus To Join NAMBA"
(AFP)
Roman Polanski announced today from Switzerland: "Jesus will
return to Earth to join NAMBLA."
"Jesus just cannot resist all those cute young boys at the beach
wearing bathing suits... Christ is human, you know."
Then a prison guard took Polanski back to his cell as reporters
filed out of the visting area.
obadiah| 2.19.10 @ 8:38PM
sounds like morality is a blackjack the righteous use to beat up
the sinners.
as i understand jesus, his message was something else. i read the
parts about his coming not for the righteous, but for the lost.
at any rate, that's what i need, not being beat up with morality.
Alan Brooks| 2.19.10 @ 10:40PM
Obadiah,
If guys can be macho, why can't Christians be righteous?
Margie| 2.20.10 @ 9:35PM
He did come for sinners. Sinners only! But He came for them and
commanded them (and us) to repent. (turn away from sin.)~
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that
whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life
For God sent the Son into the world, not to condemn the world,
but that the world might be saved through Him. He who believes in
Him is not condemned; he who does not believe is condemned
already, because he has not believed in the Name of the only Son
of God. And this is the judgment, that the Light has come into
the world, and men loved darkness rather than Light, because
their deeds were evil. For every one who does evil hates the
Light, and does not come to the Light, lest his deeds should be
exposed. But he who does what is true comes to the Light, that it
may be clearly seen that his deeds have been wrought in God." Jn.
3:16-21.
This is what He says. It's all true. It's the only hopeful way to
live. And He invites you to come to Him.
Alan Brooks| 2.21.10 @ 9:35PM
that doesn't SOLVE THE PROBLEM.
We're stuck here on Earth, we are not in Heaven.
Margie| 2.22.10 @ 2:31PM
Spoken light a little short-sighted sheep!
Margie| 2.22.10 @ 2:33PM
oops. like.
Alan,
of course we're not in Heaven. Yet. But don't you agree that we
all need to prepare? I think you do know.
Did you know that sheep have the ability to see only 3 feet in
front of them? Yep. It's a fact.
You can't compare kids exposed to an abstinence-only sex
education policy to ones exposed to a safer-sex education policy,
because those kids live in entirely different communities, and
their sex ed classes are probably like the 7th or 8th biggest
factor in their rate of promiscuity. Kids in Sioux Falls, South
Dakota are doubtlessly less promiscuous than kids in San
Francisco, but the respective differences in their sex ed
programs have very little to do with that. My guess is, you could
switch the sex ed curriculums between those two respective
communities, and the rates of teen sex, etc., wouldn't change
very much. Its family, culture, religion, etc., that determines
promiscuity rates, not silly "Health" classes taught by the
part-time "Civics" teacher at some high school.
Aaron Andersen| 5.21.10 @ 11:31AM
Most, if not all, studies that compare the
"Abstinence-only-until-marriage" program and the "Comprehensive
Sex Education" program are held in the same area among different
schools, if not, are held in the same schools among different
groups. In other words, no it is not because of "differences in
family, cultures, religion, etc.," but in the actual programs,
which since the 60's have shown that the Comprehensive program
has had any results on preventing the spread of STI's and
unplanned pregnancies.
More and more kids are becoming sexually active at an earlier age
and there needs to be legislation to help control pregnancy at
such a young age.
Sam| 2.19.10 @ 10:26PM
I love all you adults talking about people my age as though you
in your holiness know what's best for us. Let me bring you up to
speed on a few points: No one is buying your abstinence only
teaching. We believe telling us not to have sex is another way
you'd like to control us, that we don't have the ability to make
the decision ourselves. It's the same with underage drinking. It
is illegal, but we do it anyway and in large numbers.
If you want us to behave like adults, start treating us like
adults. Give information about sex- the positives, the negatives,
the benefits, and the risks. Abstinence only teaching is
extremely condescending. How do you feel when liberals treat you
condescendingly?
Adult| 2.20.10 @ 7:18AM
If you wanted to be treated like an adult, then get a job and
stop leeching off your parents, kiddo. Otherwise, shut your cake
hole about all the things you want the right to do behind your
parents' backs. If I were your daddy and knew you were online
polluting a comments section with your arrogant sassing of your
elders and betters, I'd take you out behind the woodshed and tan
some respect into that sorry hide of yours.
Hell yeah, you need to be controlled, since you've obviously got
no self-control. Apart from applying the hand of teaching to your
little-used seat of learning to knock some sense into that fat
and empty head of yours, I certainly also recommend to your
parents that they confiscate every cell phone, mp4 player, and
other digital device and computer you have and not let you have
any of them back until you learn some respect for the wisdom and
experience adults have in spades and that you sorely lack.
If that doesn't cure you of your parasitism and arrogant
adolescence by the time you're eighteen, they should then throw
you out of the house and refuse to waste a penny more on your
food, shelter, and education. Let's see which of your lazy and
empty-headed peers who leech off their thankless parents and then
sass them behind their backs the way you do will take care of you
then, you stupid brat!
Sam| 2.22.10 @ 3:03PM
Wow- for an adult, your stream of insults make you seem like a
petulent little child.
Where did you get the idea that I'm lazy and am leeching off my
parents? In fact, you might be surprised to know that they're
proud of me and what I've accomplished. I do respect them- and
they've given me considerable freedom in return.
I don't respect self-righteous adults like you who think that we
are little children whose lives should be regulated. Did
teenagers like myself bring America to the sorry state that it's
in right now? Nope- that would be adults so go ahead and pat
yourselves on the back.
I respect people who EARN my respect and if you think messing up
this country merits my (and other teens) unconditional respect,
then your deluded. It's called leadership by example- try it
sometime.
Aaron Andersen| 5.21.10 @ 11:46AM
Now, I agree with you Sam, the abstinence-only program does not
work and is really just an insult to the younger age group.
People need to stop trying to push what they believe is "morally
right" on to their children, when they could not even see for
themselves what is right back in the 60's when all they did was
smoke dope and have sex with multiple people, including
strangers, at least our generations have sex with a limited
number of partners. Of course, if they would stop shoveling money
into the abstinence program and put it into the Comprehensive sex
ed program, then we would be even more responsible, and reduce
our risk of Sexually Transmitted Infections and pregnancies.
Aaron Andersen| 5.21.10 @ 11:40AM
wow, that is just sad that your parents treated you in such a
fashion that you lack all respect for them, but are to afraid to
confront them so you pass your anger and hatred on to the next
group that you feel deserve to be treated how you were or
less.
when it comes down to it though, your not helping, so next time
just don't even throw your opinion in with the rest of the adults
and go sit at the kiddie table eating your cheerios with the rest
of the small children who cannot express their opinions in an
appropriate manner.
Ryan| 2.22.10 @ 8:53AM
Oddly enough, you're right about one thing.
You need to be treated as an adult.
The more I see, the more I am convinced that you need to be able
to live for yourself by the age of 16. No, your education isn't
done, but this ridiculous period of no responsibility between
13-25 that we are placing on our kids does more hurt than good.
Alan Brooks| 2.19.10 @ 10:46PM
Sam,
No one is preventing anyone from having sex today.
I can remember back to 1960, and by 1969 a young person was more
pressured to have sex than to not have sex.
By 1977 you couldn't get away from sex if you wanted to.
Andie| 2.19.10 @ 11:26PM
Interesting article. Your comment here, though, is incorrect: •
"how chlamydia, even if cured with antibiotics, still renders
women unable to bear a child to term because its scars cause
ectopic pregnancies..."
That's actually not true. It would be true if the chlamydia were
left untreated for a very long time, but chlamydia treated
properly and promptly will not stop anyone from carrying a baby
to term.
Aaron Andersen| 5.21.10 @ 11:53AM
Well of course it can be treated and prevented if caught early,
but many teens do not even know that they have an STI, because
they do not show symptoms or they simple do not know that they
can be checked for STI's, because the abstinence-only program
does not inform students about anything helpful. The program does
not inform them that they have the right to get checked out, but
the Comprehensive Sex Education program does, it also educates
students about what the symptoms are, other STI's, how to prevent
infection with condoms, and even that they don't have to have sex
until they are ready, the program will also give them the
confidence to say "no" if they are not ready.
henry| 2.20.10 @ 2:45AM
Elizabeth the First was born when her father, Henry viii was
about thirteen. She was a congenital syphilitic – Henry had
syphilis.
A recent study from India showed that the average age of a
prostitute there is twelve, and that of her customer 52.
The average life expectancy in Swaziland is 32, because of AIDS.
More than 50 percent of the population there is under the age of
twenty.
There’s nothing new here. You don’t need brains or insight to
have sex.
Oldefarte| 2.21.10 @ 10:58AM
It's fairly simple-----liberals believe in CONTROL/MANIPULATION
for political purposes. As to sex education, parents only should
be the teachers of same, not public schools. Liberals previously
obtained control of public schools in order to brainwash
vulnerable children, and are consistently doing so [not only
about sexual matters but now, THE CHOSEN ONE'S greatness].
Clinton's HHS Secretary Joclyn Elders' proclamation on the
virtues of masturbation began this brainwashing. When
citizens/patents/Americans begin realizing this liberal
brainwashing that is manipulating them via newspapers, public
schools,etc and thereafter begin electing conservative political
representatives, the pathway to solution of this sexual
abstinence being taught in schools,etc will begin to become in
place!!!!!
Margie| 2.22.10 @ 2:36PM
Ugh. The horrors of the Left. In a nutshell! (No pun intended but
if the shoe fits). :^)
LJC| 2.21.10 @ 6:52PM
Henry; I'm surprised you did not even check with wikipedia before
you gave us your news on Henry VIII, who was 42, not 13, when
Elizabeth was born in 1533. And what he probably had was not syph
but untreated Type 2 diabetes
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Rank and File| 2.19.10 @ 9:41AM
Excellent analysis Mr. Thunder. Should we stop trying to keep people alive because they won't stop dying? Should we stop promoting marriage because people divorce? Should we stop promoting good health because people have weaknesses for sweets? Should we stop teaching our children to abstain from sex simply because some of them give in to their urges?
Absolutely not.
Simply put, there are myriad benefits to promoting abstinence. How ridiculous is the fact that we even have to have this debate, that you have to write this article -- especially where we're talking about kids as young as 10 years old?
How differently would men look at women if they were accustomed to controlling their urges? Might this change or affect the occurrences of rape? Even if it just "might" help with many of these issues -- which it obviously does -- it is still worth it.
And this study shows that.
Alan Brooks| 2.19.10 @ 6:00PM
First we have to stop over-glorifying sex as being "beautiful".
All my life I've been told sex is good. no it isn't, it is pleasurable, not good.
Morality is confused with aesthetics,
as pleasure is confused with happiness.
If sex were good then prostitutes would be our best citizens;
if sex were good we could elect pimps to public office (no jokes, please).
K Ralph| 2.19.10 @ 8:28PM
Sex is good when confined to it's proper role - that is in the case of marriage between a man and a woman, who desire to commit fully to each other and none other. Sex can be very, very good - not just pleasurable. You have mistaken "sex" for "lust" or the using of one's body for economic plunder. It can be an essential part of creating "oneness" out of two.
Alan Brooks| 2.19.10 @ 10:34PM
K Ralph,
Your's above is semantics. Whether you call it lust or sex, it is still an animal appetite, whether or not it results in the union of two into one.
A man and wife can pig out on lust and con themselves into thinking they are pious. Self deception means a man and wife can be grossly overweight slobs who think they are making love when they are in reality rutting like pigs.
I am interested in genuine Christianity, not white trash fake religion.
Alan Brooks| 2.20.10 @ 8:04PM
Have no idea whatsoever what to do about government; recently realized I had been thoroughly out-of-touch, like a blind man touching one part of an elephant but not comprehending the larger animal at all.
Am not progressive anymore, too old fashioned, think of religion more & more;
as escapism, yes, no doubt about it; yet hasn't politics become escapist? hasn't politics merged with celebrity culture to become sort-of TV Program writ Large? One part 'Survivor', the other half 'Jerry Springer'.
Not all religious orgs are coercive, some can use moral suasion without promoting religion itself. Religion and morality can be compartmentalized so that morality promotion becomes subsidiary to the primary function of the given religious org as anodyne and family counselor.
End of life counseling is v. important.
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Debra| 3.31.10 @ 1:45PM
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Tony in Central PA| 2.19.10 @ 9:47AM
The article did well to expose the kind of cultural doublethink that so often goes on these days with respect to the subject of human sexuality. I would argue that the prevailing attitudes about human sexuality in most of the West these days has created an ethos that is quite simply unsustainable. ( Liberals, take your best shot at refuting this assertion ).
My sister - in -law is a family practice MD who all too often treats high school girls from apparently good families for STD's. She has to tell a significant number of them that they will not likely be able to have children. Somewhat surprisingly, she reports most of them seem unfazed by this news. Maybe this reaction is the result of the consistent brainwashing kids are getting that the least important purpose of sex is having children.
Alan Brooks| 2.19.10 @ 6:18PM
"She has to tell a significant number of them that they will not likely be able to have children."
Why should they have children? abstinence is best on all counts.
Be fruitful and multiply?
America will have plenty of births in the years to come from immigrants both legal and not.
Alan Brooks| 2.19.10 @ 6:47PM
a. Saltpeter and paxil milkshakes in skool
cafeterias.
b. Cold showers in skool gyms.
c. More abstinence ideals being taught in skools.
d. Chastity belts as presents for Christmas.
serlinda| 2.22.10 @ 2:04AM
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Tony in Central PA| 2.22.10 @ 11:11AM
SDome of us have the radical notion that kids shouldn't be having sex, especially when it means the behavior can needlessly result in a lifetime of closed options and suffering as a result. For the same reasons, kids shouldn't be allowed to play with guns or eat whatever they want whenever they want it. Comprende ?
Felia| 2.22.10 @ 2:10AM
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KJW| 2.19.10 @ 10:51AM
A simple question: why do liberals, through their words, behavior and policies, seem to want to encourage children to become sexually active?
(I hope there is a different answer which follows but my own answers to the above question would be:
1. Liberals' collective goal is to rule over as many people as possible, and research and history have shown that a debauched populace is much easier to control.
2. Liberals, and man in general, do not like objective truth, but rather want to set the rules themselves. To most people, there is nothing quite so intimate as one's sexuality; therefore, that is the area where many people least like to be told what to do (or perhaps I should see, FEEL like they're being told what to do), making it prime territory for rebellion and encouragement of the same.
3. Dr. Laura Schlessinger once said "Guilt likes to recruit". Many of these people setting (or better said, removing) the rules may have much in their past that they feel guilty about...but if they help others make similar mistakes (and get on a path to become as equally miserable) their remorseful feelings are assuaged. At least temporarily so.)
Mick| 2.19.10 @ 3:45PM
KJW, you nailed it! The government schools and many of the recent generation of parents actually train the children to think of themselves as the center of the universe not being constrained by absolutes of right and wrong but are invited to decide for themselves using any internal ethics system of their choice to determine what is right for them.
Interesting, wasn't there a serpent in some garden somewhere that sold the same bill of goods (lie) to another young woman, how is that working out?
jd| 2.19.10 @ 5:49PM
KJW and Mick,
Right on! Both of you have said it well.
Alan Brooks| 2.19.10 @ 6:22PM
"Many of these people setting (or better said, removing) the rules may have much in their past that they feel guilty about...but if they help others make similar mistakes (and get on a path to become as equally miserable) their remorseful feelings are assuaged. At least temporarily so.)"
Occam's razor would say they simply are titillated by it all. Perv sells, baby. And all of you know it. let;s cut out the injured innocence, you have no idea how many laugh at your naivite'.
Appleby| 2.19.10 @ 12:23PM
Given the obsessive Marching Mommies who relentlessly scream MORBIDLY OBESE! at anyone who doesn't resemble a Stick Figure, and who make sure that every child understands that the more she weighs, the more likely she will be dead before morning and how tired we all are of hearing it...
I suggest we kill two birds with one stone and encourage girls to gain weight (it NEVER matters what boys look like, after all) and then they will not have to worry about sex, since as the Marching Mommies assure us, girls who weigh more than 98 lb. are not attractive to boys or men.
The girls will be much happier and the whole problem will be solved.
CJohnson| 2.19.10 @ 2:05PM
Why in all this sex ed curricula crap is there NEVER any discussion with teens about birth defect risks from unplanned pregnancies. Do teens get to observe FAS, FES, and preemies with learning difficulties caused by poor prenatal care, drug/alcohol use and lack of good nutrition?
Don| 2.19.10 @ 5:41PM
Finally!
Is it any wonder I call conservatives morons and liberals idiots?
You state what I have been waiting for some one to say. Underage people do not have the right of consent. Teaching them this at least protects them for up until eighteen which as we all know is still quite young.
Alan Brooks| 2.19.10 @ 6:29PM
But conservatives too teach sex is 'beautiful'.
Or at least they use the Bible to (often) infer that there is something sacred about sex.
I say hush this cry of sex being scared 'til a thousand years have past.
----------------------------------------------
Saltpeter and paxil milkshakes in skool cafeterias.
Cold showers in skool gyms.
More abstinence ideals being taught in skools.
Chastity belts as presents for Christmas.
Alan Brooks| 2.19.10 @ 6:32PM
errata: sacred, not "scared".
But, without joining Julia's Junior Anti-Sex League, I say hush this cry of over-glorified sexuality 'til a thousand years have past.
Alan Brooks| 2.19.10 @ 6:39PM
Hot off the presses:
(AFP) – British pop superstar Elton John stirred controversy in a magazine interview Friday when he claimed that Jesus Christ was "gay."
"I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems," John said in an interview posted on the website of US celebrity news magazine Parade.
"On the cross, he forgave the people who crucified him. Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. I don't know what makes people so cruel. Try being a gay woman in the Middle East -- you're as good as dead," said John, who is gay.
The Catholic League, the largest US Catholic rights group, condemned the comments.
"Jesus was certainly compassionate, but to say he was 'super-intelligent' is to compare the son of God to a successful game-show contestant," league president Bill Donohue said in a statement.
"More seriously, to call Jesus a homosexual is to label him a sexual deviant. But what else would we expect from a man who previously said, 'From my point of view, I would ban religion completely'?"
Alan Brooks| 2.19.10 @ 6:45PM
Coming Next:
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(AFP)
Roman Polanski announced today from Switzerland: "Jesus will return to Earth to join NAMBLA."
"Jesus just cannot resist all those cute young boys at the beach wearing bathing suits... Christ is human, you know."
Then a prison guard took Polanski back to his cell as reporters filed out of the visting area.
obadiah| 2.19.10 @ 8:38PM
sounds like morality is a blackjack the righteous use to beat up the sinners.
as i understand jesus, his message was something else. i read the parts about his coming not for the righteous, but for the lost. at any rate, that's what i need, not being beat up with morality.
Alan Brooks| 2.19.10 @ 10:40PM
Obadiah,
If guys can be macho, why can't Christians be righteous?
Margie| 2.20.10 @ 9:35PM
He did come for sinners. Sinners only! But He came for them and commanded them (and us) to repent. (turn away from sin.)~
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life For God sent the Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. He who believes in Him is not condemned; he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the Name of the only Son of God. And this is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than Light, because their deeds were evil. For every one who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light, lest his deeds should be exposed. But he who does what is true comes to the Light, that it may be clearly seen that his deeds have been wrought in God." Jn. 3:16-21.
This is what He says. It's all true. It's the only hopeful way to live. And He invites you to come to Him.
Alan Brooks| 2.21.10 @ 9:35PM
that doesn't SOLVE THE PROBLEM.
We're stuck here on Earth, we are not in Heaven.
Margie| 2.22.10 @ 2:31PM
Spoken light a little short-sighted sheep!
Margie| 2.22.10 @ 2:33PM
oops. like.
Alan,
of course we're not in Heaven. Yet. But don't you agree that we all need to prepare? I think you do know.
Did you know that sheep have the ability to see only 3 feet in front of them? Yep. It's a fact.
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Kevin Riley O'Keeffe| 2.19.10 @ 8:55PM
You can't compare kids exposed to an abstinence-only sex education policy to ones exposed to a safer-sex education policy, because those kids live in entirely different communities, and their sex ed classes are probably like the 7th or 8th biggest factor in their rate of promiscuity. Kids in Sioux Falls, South Dakota are doubtlessly less promiscuous than kids in San Francisco, but the respective differences in their sex ed programs have very little to do with that. My guess is, you could switch the sex ed curriculums between those two respective communities, and the rates of teen sex, etc., wouldn't change very much. Its family, culture, religion, etc., that determines promiscuity rates, not silly "Health" classes taught by the part-time "Civics" teacher at some high school.
Aaron Andersen| 5.21.10 @ 11:31AM
Most, if not all, studies that compare the "Abstinence-only-until-marriage" program and the "Comprehensive Sex Education" program are held in the same area among different schools, if not, are held in the same schools among different groups. In other words, no it is not because of "differences in family, cultures, religion, etc.," but in the actual programs, which since the 60's have shown that the Comprehensive program has had any results on preventing the spread of STI's and unplanned pregnancies.
Kellie| 2.19.10 @ 10:26PM
More and more kids are becoming sexually active at an earlier age and there needs to be legislation to help control pregnancy at such a young age.
Sam| 2.19.10 @ 10:26PM
I love all you adults talking about people my age as though you in your holiness know what's best for us. Let me bring you up to speed on a few points: No one is buying your abstinence only teaching. We believe telling us not to have sex is another way you'd like to control us, that we don't have the ability to make the decision ourselves. It's the same with underage drinking. It is illegal, but we do it anyway and in large numbers.
If you want us to behave like adults, start treating us like adults. Give information about sex- the positives, the negatives, the benefits, and the risks. Abstinence only teaching is extremely condescending. How do you feel when liberals treat you condescendingly?
Adult| 2.20.10 @ 7:18AM
If you wanted to be treated like an adult, then get a job and stop leeching off your parents, kiddo. Otherwise, shut your cake hole about all the things you want the right to do behind your parents' backs. If I were your daddy and knew you were online polluting a comments section with your arrogant sassing of your elders and betters, I'd take you out behind the woodshed and tan some respect into that sorry hide of yours.
Hell yeah, you need to be controlled, since you've obviously got no self-control. Apart from applying the hand of teaching to your little-used seat of learning to knock some sense into that fat and empty head of yours, I certainly also recommend to your parents that they confiscate every cell phone, mp4 player, and other digital device and computer you have and not let you have any of them back until you learn some respect for the wisdom and experience adults have in spades and that you sorely lack.
If that doesn't cure you of your parasitism and arrogant adolescence by the time you're eighteen, they should then throw you out of the house and refuse to waste a penny more on your food, shelter, and education. Let's see which of your lazy and empty-headed peers who leech off their thankless parents and then sass them behind their backs the way you do will take care of you then, you stupid brat!
Sam| 2.22.10 @ 3:03PM
Wow- for an adult, your stream of insults make you seem like a petulent little child.
Where did you get the idea that I'm lazy and am leeching off my parents? In fact, you might be surprised to know that they're proud of me and what I've accomplished. I do respect them- and they've given me considerable freedom in return.
I don't respect self-righteous adults like you who think that we are little children whose lives should be regulated. Did teenagers like myself bring America to the sorry state that it's in right now? Nope- that would be adults so go ahead and pat yourselves on the back.
I respect people who EARN my respect and if you think messing up this country merits my (and other teens) unconditional respect, then your deluded. It's called leadership by example- try it sometime.
Aaron Andersen| 5.21.10 @ 11:46AM
Now, I agree with you Sam, the abstinence-only program does not work and is really just an insult to the younger age group. People need to stop trying to push what they believe is "morally right" on to their children, when they could not even see for themselves what is right back in the 60's when all they did was smoke dope and have sex with multiple people, including strangers, at least our generations have sex with a limited number of partners. Of course, if they would stop shoveling money into the abstinence program and put it into the Comprehensive sex ed program, then we would be even more responsible, and reduce our risk of Sexually Transmitted Infections and pregnancies.
Aaron Andersen| 5.21.10 @ 11:40AM
wow, that is just sad that your parents treated you in such a fashion that you lack all respect for them, but are to afraid to confront them so you pass your anger and hatred on to the next group that you feel deserve to be treated how you were or less.
when it comes down to it though, your not helping, so next time just don't even throw your opinion in with the rest of the adults and go sit at the kiddie table eating your cheerios with the rest of the small children who cannot express their opinions in an appropriate manner.
Ryan| 2.22.10 @ 8:53AM
Oddly enough, you're right about one thing.
You need to be treated as an adult.
The more I see, the more I am convinced that you need to be able to live for yourself by the age of 16. No, your education isn't done, but this ridiculous period of no responsibility between 13-25 that we are placing on our kids does more hurt than good.
Alan Brooks| 2.19.10 @ 10:46PM
Sam,
No one is preventing anyone from having sex today.
I can remember back to 1960, and by 1969 a young person was more pressured to have sex than to not have sex.
By 1977 you couldn't get away from sex if you wanted to.
Andie| 2.19.10 @ 11:26PM
Interesting article. Your comment here, though, is incorrect: • "how chlamydia, even if cured with antibiotics, still renders women unable to bear a child to term because its scars cause ectopic pregnancies..."
That's actually not true. It would be true if the chlamydia were left untreated for a very long time, but chlamydia treated properly and promptly will not stop anyone from carrying a baby to term.
Aaron Andersen| 5.21.10 @ 11:53AM
Well of course it can be treated and prevented if caught early, but many teens do not even know that they have an STI, because they do not show symptoms or they simple do not know that they can be checked for STI's, because the abstinence-only program does not inform students about anything helpful. The program does not inform them that they have the right to get checked out, but the Comprehensive Sex Education program does, it also educates students about what the symptoms are, other STI's, how to prevent infection with condoms, and even that they don't have to have sex until they are ready, the program will also give them the confidence to say "no" if they are not ready.
henry| 2.20.10 @ 2:45AM
Elizabeth the First was born when her father, Henry viii was about thirteen. She was a congenital syphilitic – Henry had syphilis.
A recent study from India showed that the average age of a prostitute there is twelve, and that of her customer 52.
The average life expectancy in Swaziland is 32, because of AIDS. More than 50 percent of the population there is under the age of twenty.
There’s nothing new here. You don’t need brains or insight to have sex.
Oldefarte| 2.21.10 @ 10:58AM
It's fairly simple-----liberals believe in CONTROL/MANIPULATION for political purposes. As to sex education, parents only should be the teachers of same, not public schools. Liberals previously obtained control of public schools in order to brainwash vulnerable children, and are consistently doing so [not only about sexual matters but now, THE CHOSEN ONE'S greatness]. Clinton's HHS Secretary Joclyn Elders' proclamation on the virtues of masturbation began this brainwashing. When citizens/patents/Americans begin realizing this liberal brainwashing that is manipulating them via newspapers, public schools,etc and thereafter begin electing conservative political representatives, the pathway to solution of this sexual abstinence being taught in schools,etc will begin to become in place!!!!!
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Ugh. The horrors of the Left. In a nutshell! (No pun intended but if the shoe fits). :^)
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Henry; I'm surprised you did not even check with wikipedia before you gave us your news on Henry VIII, who was 42, not 13, when Elizabeth was born in 1533. And what he probably had was not syph but untreated Type 2 diabetes
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