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Today, more than at any other time in our society, our rejection of God’s moral standards has led to an epidemic of sexually transmitted diseases and infections. This commentary will be a devastating one about our society. It will show you how we have become no better than past societies of the Romans, Greeks, Babylonians, and yes those of Sodom and Gomorrah. I suggest you have a shower ready to scrub yourself clean after learning how truly disgusting our society has become. As you look at the graph below, you can see that by the mid 1990's STDs started to...

(CNSNews.com) – The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force seized on an advocacy group's report on transgender military service Thursday to call on President Barack Obama to issue an executive order allowing transgender men and women to serve in the military. “We commend the commission for stating independently what we all know: there is no compelling medical reason to exclude trans people from serving their country, and transitions would place almost no burden on the military,” Rea Carey, executive director of the task force, said in a press release . “The President should sign an executive order to lift the...

Joycelyn Elders agrees with Barack Obama "to the full capacity."

Some voters pining for a principled conservative Republican presidential candidate are pinning their hopes on former governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee. But while Gov. Huckabee stands strong on some issues like abortion that are important to social conservatives, a careful examination of his record as governor reveals that he is just another wishy-washy Republican who enthusiastically promotes big government. The Baptist preacher entered politics in an unlikely way for a Republican—as the result of a meeting with Joycelyn Elders, reports The New Republic. As director of the Arkansas department of health under Gov. Bill Clinton, Dr. Elders opined that preachers...

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Age hasn't mellowed Joycelyn Elders, the former U.S. surgeon general who was purged from the Clinton administration for talking often and openly about sex education and the merits of masturbation as a tool in the fight against AIDS. "You know, studies have shown that 70 percent of women masturbate, as do 90 percent of men," she said Monday afternoon, before meeting with students and faculty at Kansas University Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan. "I've often said the rest of them are lying," said the 70-year-old Elders, chuckling at her frankness. She later spoke at KU's Lied Center, a public...

What had been a growing movement to relax the country's marijuana laws abruptly lost its buzz this week. With several pro-marijuana state ballot initiatives going down to defeat Tuesday and conservative Republicans now solidly in control of federal policies, pot advocates can't help but wonder if the United States will ever follow other countries in relaxing its rules on dope. "I'm not going to try and dress up a pig," said Rob Kampia, executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project, a Washington, D.C. group that was behind the pot proposals in Nevada, Arizona and elsewhere. "This is pretty disappointing." In...

March 31, 2002, 6:08PM 12 million reasons for condoms, sex education By M. JOYCELYN ELDERS Why we in public health did not give "The Battle of the Condoms" to the Defense Department so it could be properly classified as a "Weapon of Defense" against the war of sexually transmitted disease, unplanned pregnancies and HIV, I will never know. Out of the 15 million people in the United States who get sexually transmitted diseases, or STDs, every year, 4 million are teen-agers. Almost 50 percent of all pregnancies in the United States are unplanned -- 92 percent of pregnancies for teen-agers....