Evangelical Teens' Very Active Sex Lives

re: Evangelical Teens' Very Active Sex Lives

Kit — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:33:27 GMT

Leahsmom: It is not unreasonable for abstinence-only education programs to teach that condoms are ineffective since othing but abstinence is effective 100% of the time. But there's a whopping difference between saying condoms are 97% effective and that's not good enough and saying they don't work at all. Most abstinence-based education programs claim they teach the real stats, but I find it hard to believe since they're not required to. Telling a teenager there's as much chance of getting pregnant when wearing a condom as not is pretty much criminally negligent. Still, I've never seen proof that they lie in any way except omission.

Poor kids. They can be kind of judgmental and hypocritical, but usually they're just uneducated.

re: Evangelical Teens' Very Active Sex Lives

TokyoRose — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:32:46 GMT

Oh yes, leahsmom, they take the tiny percentages of condoms that break or get used with petroleum-based lubricants, or how the pill causes cancer or doesn't work when you take certain other drugs, or whatever, and twist the statistics (although I don't know if anyone keeps track pregnancies or diseases caused by birth control malfunction), and basically tell these poor kids that birth control isn't effective. Because that will TOTALLY keep them from having sex. Totally.

Sometimes I feel like reminding these people that the Bible DOES in fact allow for logic, deductive reasoning, extrapolation, etc. Morons.

re: Evangelical Teens' Very Active Sex Lives

Shannon LC Cate — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:30:52 GMT

The stat about divorce and pregnancy rates in red and blue states is so telling. And they are always claiming that the values of the blue states are leading to moral decay...

What kind of whacko opposite-world is it for conservatives, anyway?

re: Evangelical Teens' Very Active Sex Lives

leahsmom — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:28:42 GMT

I wasn't aware that abstinence only programs taught that condoms don't work - why do they resort to lies? It is always hard for me to understand these so-called "moral" "values" programs that can't seem to function without lies and corruption!