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Miss America Silenced
The Washington Times ^
| 10/9/2002
| George Archibald
Posted on 10/08/2002 11:05:18 PM PDT by Tony in Hawaii
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:57:43 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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Miss America 2003, Erika Harold, yesterday said pageant officials have ordered her not to talk publicly about sexual abstinence, a cause she has advocated to teenage girls in Illinois.
"Quite frankly, and I'm not going to be specific, there are pressures from some sides to not promote [abstinence]," the 22-year-old woman from Urbana, Ill., told The Washington Times.
(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...
TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: pc; politicallycorrect
To: Tony in Hawaii
Well, I guess not.
To: Tony in Hawaii
Gotta find out which FReepers post on this subject, and PING them.
Doesn't help that you had to post in the chat ghetto.
To: petuniasevan
Yeah, I should have posted it to Breaking News, and at least the complaints would have kept it bumped.
To: Tony in Hawaii; kayak; Molly Pitcher; illstillbe; Lorena
BTTT
Good report!!!
Funny, how something as sensible, simple & workable as abstinence is so reactionary to others.
Not ...funny ha ha.......
...funny sad.
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posted on
10/10/2002 3:34:53 AM PDT
by
Guenevere
To: Guenevere
Thanks for the ping, Guennie. Funny sad is right.
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posted on
10/10/2002 5:48:35 AM PDT
by
Lorena
To: Tony in Hawaii
Did you see Ratner on O'Reilly last night? She said that the lady was wrong in advocating abstinence. She actually said, "abstinence doesn't work." Huh? I suppose that promiscuity prevents more pregnancies and STD's than abstinence. Geez.
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posted on
10/11/2002 6:19:13 AM PDT
by
alnick
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