Newsweek has an article about the future of abstinence only education now that the liberals are in charge and injected a dose of reality into the situation. Aka, they decided not to fund a flawed program of lies and disinformation. Well, not entirely true, they can still promote abstinence if they also include a more comprehensive program. After all, can you really call it a comprehensive program if you don’t mention that not doing it is one of the safest methods around, even if that’s not all that realistic? It’s a three page article and it’s somewhat interesting. What I’d like to highlight comes from the bottom of the second page.
But many of the abstinence advocates NEWSWEEK talked to thought such compromises were untenable, that they could not teach students to remain abstinent until marriage while demonstrating how to use condoms. “If the funding is for a different worldview, one that says you should give condoms to kids, that’s not my belief system,” says Unruh. “I think it’s very harmful.” She and others say it’s a question of morals and values, which is not an area for compromise.
In other words, we can’t compromise because our religious beliefs are what we’re really advocating in our program. If there’s any wonder why abstinence education doesn’t work, and the article does point to some reason, consider the approach being taken here. Kids? Are we really going to assume that teenagers are the same as children? Does she honestly think that treating teenagers the same way she’d treat a ten year old is going to be affective in any way? “No, bad,” might work for dogs, but teenagers generally only piss on the carpet when they’re drunk.
Plus, she’s teaching a morality system, not sexual education. Thus, if the teenagers she’s preaching, and/or proselytizing to don’t share the same morality system she’s simply wasting everybody’s time. Worse yet, she’s denying the students a proper education, which is much, much worse than promoting her particular brand of Jesus.
Furthermore, morals and values should never be above compromise or question. Slavery used to be moral. The treatment of women as property used to be moral. One should always question what they believe, especially something as subjective and created as morality: even more so, when the evidence points to your beliefs being wrong and dangerous.
Tags: Abstinence, Newsweek, Obama
