Posted on 01/27/2010 12:19:12 PM PST by NYer
Oprah Winfrey, the daytime television guru who encourages viewers daily by telling them they have the power to achieve any goal they might set for themselves, questioned Bristol Palin’s goal of abstaining from sex until marriage in a recent interview:
“In a Jan. 22 interview, Oprah criticized Bristol Palin, the teen daughter of former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, for recently telling In Touch Weekly that she was pledging abstinence until marriage. ‘I kind of bristled,’ Oprah began, ‘when I saw this—where you said, ‘I’m not going to have sex until I’m married. I can guarantee it’ ... I’m just wondering if that is a realistic goal. I think teaching responsibility, teaching, ya know, a sense of judgment about it, but is that a realistic position?’”
Bristol was unmoved by Oprah’s questioning, saying that abstinence until marriage was a good goal for all young women to have.
“But when you make the statement ... you don’t think you’re setting yourself up? Is that a realistic position?” Oprah pressed.
Bristol answered, “It’s a realistic goal for myself.”
I find Oprah’s “realism” here so old and tired. I wonder if there are any other goals a young woman could set for herself that would elicit this kind of “bristling” and “realism” from Oprah?
Going to college? Becoming president? Curing cancer? Go for it! But don’t kid yourself into believing you might be capable of doing something as difficult as abstaining from sex until you are married.
I’ll bet Bristol had big plans and dreams for her life that did not include becoming a mother at the age of 19. Seeing premarital sex as risky behavior with potentially devastating consequences shows maturity, not naïveté. Every one of us should applaud and encourage a young woman like Bristol Palin who dares to put chastity and life-long goals ahead of her hormones.
Apparently, though, the advice anti-abstinence types would offer young women like her is: Dream big! As long as those dreams don’t include anything unrealistic like waiting until you are married to have sex.
They can keep their advice and realism. I’d rather my kids put their faith in a different kind of “public figure” anyway:
“I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.”—Philippians 4:13
now if she only abstained from twinkies...
**Why is abstinence so bad?**
You nailed it! BTTT!
As the previous 30 years of sex education in the US has shown, teaching about birth control has done little if anything to slow down the rate of teenage pregnancy. If kids DO use birth control at all, they aren't consistent about it, which has the same effect as not using it at all.
It’s amazing how many “conservatives” here on FR and in the media have no objection to the things forbidden by that code.
All that govt.-school sex education has mainly hyped the sexual desires of the young and informed them in great detail about every sexual practice and orientation, while indicating that all were equally valid choices and that kids should simply be “ready” and practice “safe sex.” We now have oral sex being regularly indulged in by kids of 12 or so. I would bet that millions of adults in previous centuries never experienced that in their entire lives, yet never felt unfilfilled or deprived.
I thought Horpoh grew up Baptist? You’d a thunk she retained just a little bit of that knowledge. Guess not.
My guess from this is that Oprah is having sex with someone.\
She obviously isnt abstinent.
Ok Oprah who is the lucky guy, or is it a girl?’Op is it B.O.B.? Inquiring minds and all that.
Rumors are she is about ready to come out of the closet and reveal her longtime girlfriend, Gayle King, has really been her lover.
That is an excellent answer to d0prah's question which came from a very shallow POV. Bristol is speaking for herself not anyone else. Of course, if it is a realistic goal for one person it obviously can be a realistic goal for just about anyone.
Ditto!
Guess I should be more open-minded (sarcasm.)
Lol ... bite your tongue.
Back in the day, girls made petting into a fine art. They were. by and large, in control of the situation. . Also back in the day, the boys knew that the honorable thing was to marry the girl if you wanted to have sex with her. This had been the case for a long time. Guys in the service who went to England found themselves confused because the rule there was that the guy decided the matter. Lots of men who married English girls did so because they wanted to do the right thing.
What is knowledge of responsibility or judgment without commitment to act on that knowledge? What is commitment without confidence in your will to stick to your commitments? Is it realistic to know the concepts and have no tools or desire to employ them?
d0prah is a fool with a head full of ideas and no understanding of how or why discipline and discernment should be applied to them.
Oprah’s lover uses batteries.
It has to do with one of the goals of communism, which is to completely destroy the moral fabric of a society and replace it with the state.
This is apparent if you study how they have taken control of many countries(all have failed of course). They destroy the family(sound familiar) unit because this leaves fewer loyalties and breeds dependence on the state. Indiscriminate sex also destroys loyalties and discourages ties to other people. This crap from Oprah is all part of the plan, whether she knows it or not, but I strongly suspect she does.
‘Oprah’s lover uses batteries.’
Probably 6 volt lantern batteries. Still seeking relevance.
At this point, it doesn’t even take morality for Bristol Palin to decide on abstinence: it just takes common sense. She has a child, a job, and an education to pursue, and the last thing she needs is another boyfriend who just wants to use her.
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