Comments on: Defeating Ignorance, AIDS and Teen Pregnancy http://tfninsider.org/2009/07/05/defeating-ignorance-aids-and-teen-pregnancy/ A Mainstream Voice to Counter the Religious Right Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:48:51 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Alice http://tfninsider.org/2009/07/05/defeating-ignorance-aids-and-teen-pregnancy/#comment-4802 Alice Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:23:19 +0000 http://tfnblog.wordpress.com/?p=3089#comment-4802 Abstinence isn’t the “bad” word that today’s culture makes it out to be. It’s actually the exact opposite – it’s a positive choice that teens can make to ensure a brighter and healthier future. Teens who choose abstinence don’t have to worry about STD’s or STI’s, and they don’t have to carry the emotional baggage that having sex brings. An abstinent teen can keep a clear mind to help make positive, healthy choices for their future. And most importantly, being abstinent means that you never have to live with regrets. “Game Plan” is a great abstinence-based curriculum that many schools across the United States are using. To learn more about “Game Plan”, visit www.justsayyes.org Abstinence isn’t the “bad” word that today’s culture makes it out to be. It’s actually the exact opposite – it’s a positive choice that teens can make to ensure a brighter and healthier future. Teens who choose abstinence don’t have to worry about STD’s or STI’s, and they don’t have to carry the emotional baggage that having sex brings. An abstinent teen can keep a clear mind to help make positive, healthy choices for their future. And most importantly, being abstinent means that you never have to live with regrets.

“Game Plan” is a great abstinence-based curriculum that many schools across the United States are using. To learn more about “Game Plan”, visit http://www.justsayyes.org

]]> By: Herman http://tfninsider.org/2009/07/05/defeating-ignorance-aids-and-teen-pregnancy/#comment-4740 Herman Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:23:30 +0000 http://tfnblog.wordpress.com/?p=3089#comment-4740 I am proud of Haiti's campaign to prevent Sexually Transmitted Diseases [STD's], when you consider that they are the absolutely poorest nation in the entire Western Hemisphere....kudos to them! Sadly our state of Texas...which is dominated by a cabal of right-wing, Liberal-Christian hating, religious fanatics who are in bed with...as we speak....having un-protected sex with their Republican party cohorts...these evil Texas Talibans have killed many innocent Texans with their abstinence only programs! Leonard Pitts, a syndicated newspaper columnists...[Houston Chronicle], and African American man, has recently written a very good article that criticizes the Conservative Christians in the Black community...who have promoted the non-sense of the Abstinence Only sex education programs...while AIDS, teen pregnancy, homophobia, and twenty-seven other sexually transmitted diseases, ravages urban centers and the Black communities in Houston, and other US cities. Black conservative preachers [religious fanatics], thinks that "Denial" is a river...some place in Africa...and that barrier protection [CONDOMS]...is a group of islands, someplace, off the coast of South Carolina! The whole while STD's and high mortality rates from AIDS, continues to devastate the lives of Brothers & Sisters in America. To bad those Liberal hating, Gay bashing, Black, right-wing, TV preachers can't get a clue from the good citizens of Haiti! We need to clean house at all levels of government in Texas...and vote all of these nasty, viscious, foul-mouthed, Liberal-Christian hating, Republican goons, out of public office here in our fair state. And because the Jail Industrial Complex in Texas, contributes to the AIDS and drug resistant Tuberculosis epidemic that is ravaging our state...it would do Texas a whole lot of good on a Public Health footing, to close 85% of all these concentration camp gulag prisons here...and to release hundreds of thousands of non-violent pot political prisoners...back to their loving families. That's the Christian thing to do! Herman...Liberal-Christian...Alvin, Texas. I am proud of Haiti’s campaign to prevent Sexually Transmitted Diseases [STD's], when you consider that they are the absolutely poorest nation in the entire Western Hemisphere….kudos to them! Sadly our state of Texas…which is dominated by a cabal of right-wing, Liberal-Christian hating, religious fanatics who are in bed with…as we speak….having un-protected sex with their Republican party cohorts…these evil Texas Talibans have killed many innocent Texans with their abstinence only programs!
Leonard Pitts, a syndicated newspaper columnists…[Houston Chronicle], and African American man, has recently written a very good article that criticizes the Conservative Christians in the Black community…who have promoted the non-sense of the Abstinence Only sex education programs…while AIDS, teen pregnancy, homophobia, and twenty-seven other sexually transmitted diseases, ravages urban centers and the Black communities in Houston, and other US cities.
Black conservative preachers [religious fanatics], thinks that “Denial” is a river…some place in Africa…and that barrier protection [CONDOMS]…is a group of islands, someplace, off the coast of South Carolina! The whole while STD’s and high mortality rates from AIDS, continues to devastate the lives of Brothers & Sisters in America. To bad those Liberal hating, Gay bashing, Black, right-wing, TV preachers can’t get a clue from the good citizens of Haiti!
We need to clean house at all levels of government in Texas…and vote all of these nasty, viscious, foul-mouthed, Liberal-Christian hating, Republican goons, out of public office here in our fair state. And because the Jail Industrial Complex in Texas, contributes to the AIDS and drug resistant Tuberculosis epidemic that is ravaging our state…it would do Texas a whole lot of good on a Public Health footing, to close 85% of all these concentration camp gulag prisons here…and to release hundreds of thousands of non-violent pot political prisoners…back to their loving families. That’s the Christian thing to do!
Herman…Liberal-Christian…Alvin, Texas.

]]> By: Charles http://tfninsider.org/2009/07/05/defeating-ignorance-aids-and-teen-pregnancy/#comment-4723 Charles Mon, 06 Jul 2009 02:52:32 +0000 http://tfnblog.wordpress.com/?p=3089#comment-4723 The Religious Right is convinced that the advent of the birth control pill in the 1960s caused the so-called Sexual Revolution, which increased the frequency of sexual sin per unti population in the United States. The purpose of abstinence-only sex education in Texas is to reduce the frequency of sexual sin per unit population to a level sufficient to prevent a plague, the raining of frogs, or testicle loss by all male black angus cattle in the state. They almost surely believe that the effective sex education that TFN advocates will lead to a massive outbreak of sexual sin on the landscape of Texas---an outbreak that the Religious Right feels is under control right now. As for the high number of out-of-wedlock pregnancies, the Religious Right must feel that the frequency of sin in this realm, while high, is still well below a threshold number beyond which a plague-like visitation would occur. Therefore, because Texas has not been hit by a 1000 ft. tsunami, abstinence only sex education is working adequately to prevent sexual sin among the youth of Texas. However, they have forgotten an important factor. Cumulative sin. "Cumulative sin" is defined as the slow incremental accumulation of sin from a variety of sources, which if given enough time, will snowball the sin thermometer up to a dangerous level. When one considers the collective sins of the leftists, rightists, and centrists in Texas, it is a wonder that there still is a state of Texas. The Religious Right is convinced that the advent of the birth control pill in the 1960s caused the so-called Sexual Revolution, which increased the frequency of sexual sin per unti population in the United States. The purpose of abstinence-only sex education in Texas is to reduce the frequency of sexual sin per unit population to a level sufficient to prevent a plague, the raining of frogs, or testicle loss by all male black angus cattle in the state. They almost surely believe that the effective sex education that TFN advocates will lead to a massive outbreak of sexual sin on the landscape of Texas—an outbreak that the Religious Right feels is under control right now. As for the high number of out-of-wedlock pregnancies, the Religious Right must feel that the frequency of sin in this realm, while high, is still well below a threshold number beyond which a plague-like visitation would occur. Therefore, because Texas has not been hit by a 1000 ft. tsunami, abstinence only sex education is working adequately to prevent sexual sin among the youth of Texas.

However, they have forgotten an important factor. Cumulative sin. “Cumulative sin” is defined as the slow incremental accumulation of sin from a variety of sources, which if given enough time, will snowball the sin thermometer up to a dangerous level. When one considers the collective sins of the leftists, rightists, and centrists in Texas, it is a wonder that there still is a state of Texas.

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