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Why chastity pledges by U.S. teenagers don't always ring true
The Daily Mail ^ | 30 December 2008 | Paul Thompson

Posted on 12/30/2008 11:22:07 AM PST by vivalaoink

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To: CharlesWayneCT

If you took the pledge, I’d figure that you’d probably be in a monagomous relationship which right there would cut down on some STD factors.

Homosexuals are unlikely to use birth control as well and I doubt that abstinence or chastity pledges are even considered at the homosexual only public school that was established in Chicago recently.

If it is all about education, and we are told that homosexuals are smarter than the rest of the population, why is the message that engaging in random sexual encounters with strangers in washrooms without a rubber is hazardous? The message is ignored.


61 posted on 12/31/2008 7:23:27 AM PST by weegee ("Let Me Just Cut You Off, Because I Don't Want You To Waste Your Question" - B.Obama Dec 16, 2008)
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To: CharlesWayneCT

Taking the pledge is also a public declaration. There may be some students who take this same attitude to sex (wait) but are unwilling to make themselves a target of ridicule at the school. A shy nerd doesn’t need more things to be hassled over.


62 posted on 12/31/2008 7:26:01 AM PST by weegee ("Let Me Just Cut You Off, Because I Don't Want You To Waste Your Question" - B.Obama Dec 16, 2008)
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To: Citizen Blade

It is when they video it with their phones.


63 posted on 12/31/2008 7:26:48 AM PST by weegee ("Let Me Just Cut You Off, Because I Don't Want You To Waste Your Question" - B.Obama Dec 16, 2008)
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To: vivalaoink

SEICUS encourages youth to be sexually active.

The sex positive agend as espoused by Reich, Kinsey, and feminists seeks to end all moral judgements over all sexual activity regardless of sex, age, relation, marital status, number, or species of partner(s). They see sex as a birthright to be enjoyed at every age and believe abstinence to be an unhealthy supression of sexual desires.

The same attitude you will hear the Left spout on attempts to counsel (or “convert”) homosexuals.


64 posted on 12/31/2008 7:29:57 AM PST by weegee ("Let Me Just Cut You Off, Because I Don't Want You To Waste Your Question" - B.Obama Dec 16, 2008)
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To: ItisaReligionofPeace

What does that have to do with “History”? Sounds like it belongs on Discovery. But then don’t the science channels spend a lot of time of UFOs and paranormal activity?


65 posted on 12/31/2008 7:31:32 AM PST by weegee ("Let Me Just Cut You Off, Because I Don't Want You To Waste Your Question" - B.Obama Dec 16, 2008)
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To: vivalaoink

Planned Parenthood isn’t advocating “safety”. Misfires lead to “mistakes” which is the bread and butter of their yearly revenue.


66 posted on 12/31/2008 7:32:31 AM PST by weegee ("Let Me Just Cut You Off, Because I Don't Want You To Waste Your Question" - B.Obama Dec 16, 2008)
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Here’s the reason why this study is flawed, the “rest of the story”:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2159870/posts

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Like a Virgin: The Press’ Take [Mistake] On Teenage Sex
Wall Street Journal ^ | JANUARY 6, 2009 | WILLIAM MCGURN

Posted on Tuesday, January 06, 2009 2:28:25 PM by Mrs. Don-o

“Premarital Abstinence Pledges Ineffective, Study Finds,” heralds the Washington Post. “Virginity Pledges Fail to Trump Teen Lust in Look at Older Data,” reports Bloomberg. And on it goes.

In other words, teens will be teens, and moms or dads who believe that concepts such as restraint or morality have any application today are living in a dream world. Typical was the lead for the CBS News story: “Teenagers who take virginity pledges are no less sexually active than other teens, according to a new study.”

Here’s the rub: It just isn’t true.

In fact, the only way the study’s author, Janet Elise Rosenbaum of Johns Hopkins University, could reach such results was by comparing teens who take a virginity pledge with a very small subset of other teens...


67 posted on 01/06/2009 3:05:01 PM PST by little jeremiah (Leave illusion, come to the truth. Leave the darkness, come to the light.)
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