All youth deserve the best.

Believe this was the point of the quoted material in bit’s first post.

Unbelievable, RTWL writes a post that actually acknowledges that someone needs to be responsible. bit would note this post as one of RTWL’s more useful and more appreciated posts.

But abstinence is unworkable as a strategy for a society as a whole to reduce those problems among its youth.

bit agrees. See the bit’s last post to dbadass on a man and a woman being one flesh in a marriage.

Apparently society is now at a point where it doesn’t have any “best advice” to give. There is apparently no “collective wisdom” in today’s society like there is in the “one flesh” quote above.

Passing another signpost on the way to being a society not worth preserving.

Ah but now I would have to ask whose creater and all those Gods know that surely will go nowhere. When I used to teach health I look into this. Seems the age of first sexual contact has changed suprisingly little through the years with or without all of this
June 3rd, 2008 at 12:13 pm

Then bit guesses that in your case you can’t offer the best advice, can you? Since you really can’t say that one creator is better that any other creator or that any god is better than any other god, you just can’t say what the best advice is, can you?

If you don’t believe Christ Jesus is the son of God then you can’t quote Matthew 19 to make your point. Matthew 19 is the chapter where Christ says that the Creator made a man and a woman to be one flesh in a marriage. Thus marriage is the best arrangement for human sexual expression, and an institution created by God and endorsed by Christ. This seems to bit to be exceptionally good advice, but yes, it does have Christian overtones.

When you taught health, did you feel responsible for teaching your students the “best” advice?

bit’s impression is that the number of single mothers is astronomical compared to a generation or two ago. Hope bit is wrong. bit’s impression could be simply because of the changing demographics – more people more single mothers. Let’s hope that’s all it is.

The truth not only hurts, it makes babies too.

http://thelieshavenotimproved.blogspot.com/

Seriously, I’ll be using that catch phrase for posts to come.
Fair warning!

Careful, that ole devil can be a hard nut to crack, don’t hurt yourself.

Seriously, I’ll be using that catch phrase for posts to come.
Fair warning!

Recounts

Ahhh, the gift that keeps on giving.

Maybe there was a line at the airport rest room.

Don’t forget Spongebob Squarepants.

Gotta protect our innocent children from the gay agenda!

bitblt said sex is a gift

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All the more reason to be giving it away

Teletubbies

…our teenagers, who are maturing into free thinking adults, would like to hear both sides of a subject before making THEIR decision.

But then they wouldn’t become Republicans.

TeleMan would also like to see more nuggets of comedy from the PAKAD but apparently he’s gone to “shake off the devil”.

bitblt pulls a single, inarguable statement out of his wordy diatribe and asks ralph to disagree with it. Well, no, ralph doesn’t disagree with the statement that “All youth deserve the best”.

The thing ralph disagrees with is what “the best” entails.

bitblt defends a failed strategy, “abstinence-only education” by picking at the definitions offered by TP posters, instead of recognizing that DRxJ offered a sound option:

Why not sex education that includes abstinence in it’s subject matter?
Maybe it’s just me, but my hope (belief) is that our teenagers, who are maturing into free thinking adults, would like to hear both sides of a subject before making THEIR decision.

ralph agrees that abstinence is the best way for an individual to avoid the complications of casual sexual relations: pregnancy, disease, emotional anguish. But abstinence is unworkable as a strategy for a society as a whole to reduce those problems among its youth.

Progressives have no problem with teaching abstinence. We just have a problem with teaching NOTHING BUT abstinence.

As often is the case, conservatives tend to fall down on the “less information is better” side of the divide and progressives on the other.

Gore and Moore

Obama and the Dalai Lama

You’re right — I can’t imagine there are that many kids who haven’t figured out the mechanics of the act on their own. However, it wouldn’t hurt to tell them that they won’t go blind, or that they could get seriously hurt if they want to do it with their neck in a noose and a plastic bag over their head.