ABikerSailor
Diamond Member
From the article:
So, if you're teaching AOSED, I don't think you're teaching the correct use of condoms, or birth control pills, are they? If not, then my assumption would seem correct. And I did read the article. Went back after your post and re-read it to make sure I didn't miss anything. I didn't see anywhere where it said the 1/3 that received AOSED and who were now having sex had been taught anything that would at least mitigate the undesirable outcomes from having unprotected sex.
then we must have different interpretations of what this means:
"But in this study, the teachers didn't take it that far. They purposely stayed away from religion, morality and marriage. For example, they did not preach waiting for sex until marriage or disparage using condoms."
i read the study a couple of weeks ago and i'm pretty sure that this version of what's being called abstinence only included information on contraception. my experience has been that advocating for delaying sexual activity AND providing information on contraception is the best policy.
i thought the article in the OP included more definitive language regarding this, but it is pretty ambiguous. my mistake. i apologize.
Don't get me wrong. If I were God, I'd program babies to not want to engage in sex until they were 21. I don't believe that teens and pre-teens are prepared for the consequences of sex. Heck, some adults are prepared for the consequences of sex. That said, if they were teaching about contraception, then they were not teaching abstinence only. They were teaching the same thing as any liberal sponsored sex ed class.
Thank goodness you're NOT God beowulf, because you would be violating one of His prime directives..........free will.
If you programmed the children so that they wouldn't engage in sex until 21 is a violation of free will, because you are forcing them into a specific action against their will.
Besides.......without free will, there is no sin. Without sin, there can be no forgiveness.
Without forgiveness, there can be no redemption.
You know something else? Parents are trying to be above God when they force abstinence only education, because it denies them the ability to understand the other side, which violates free will.
Hmmm...........come to think of it, there are a lot of Christian conservatives that seem to do that........the GOP and Christian Coalition come readily to mind on that.