The Yin/Yang of Teaching Abstinence
Since Tom touched on this subject in one of his previous posts, I thought I would throw in a little current events to stoke the fire of this particular debate.
President Bush has been pushing abstinence education through his faith-based programs where much of the federal education dollars are spent these days.
Now, it appears that states are taking the matters in their own hands, and there appears to be a Red State/Blue State divide on this (I know the whole Red/Blue state thing is so '04 but I'm just using it to illustrate a point).
In Rhode Island yesterday, the state's Department of Education ruled that all of their schools should stop participating in the federally-funded abstinence programs run by a group called Heritage Rhode Island. Board members say the program gave out false information about sexually transmitted diseases and conveyed negative stereotypes of women and homosexuals to students.
On the other end of the spectrum, Wisconsin's governor signed a bill on Monday that will require all sexual education classes in the state to put an extra-special emphasis on abstinence.
WWJD?
President Bush has been pushing abstinence education through his faith-based programs where much of the federal education dollars are spent these days.
Now, it appears that states are taking the matters in their own hands, and there appears to be a Red State/Blue State divide on this (I know the whole Red/Blue state thing is so '04 but I'm just using it to illustrate a point).
In Rhode Island yesterday, the state's Department of Education ruled that all of their schools should stop participating in the federally-funded abstinence programs run by a group called Heritage Rhode Island. Board members say the program gave out false information about sexually transmitted diseases and conveyed negative stereotypes of women and homosexuals to students.
On the other end of the spectrum, Wisconsin's governor signed a bill on Monday that will require all sexual education classes in the state to put an extra-special emphasis on abstinence.
WWJD?
posted by cvo @ 12:32 PM
1 Comments:
At 12:33 PM,
cvo said…
I meant to make this comment on Tom's previous post, but since we're back on it here, I will throw in my two cents.
Before I was married, I would have told you that "sexual chemistry" was only a small part of having a good, lasting relationship. I would have rated it pretty low in a Top Ten list of reasons that people stay together.
Now that I lost my wife and marriage mainly because of sexual chemistry issues, I have taken a completely different view of that opinion. I would never get involved seriously with anyone again without figuring out if we were compatible sexually. It was the NUMBER ONE factor that tore my marriage apart despite the fact that we were great friends and companions and very considerate of each other on so many other important levels.
I feel like it would be irresponsible to wait until marriage to find out about the sexual chemistry issue and just hope that it's all going to turn out okay.
I totally respect Tom's and other people's beliefs that you should abstain until marriage,but I would never take that approach myself.
However, despite all that, I am getting married again very soon, because I was lucky enough to find someone very special with whom I feel very comfortable on many different levels, so it has not dampened my spirit for being married at all.
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