Bullshit! <gggg> I'll consider that when you either show me evidence of your conclusion and demonstrate that the position you espouse does not spring primarily from inertia, bigotry, paternalism, arrogance, bullying, ignorance, selfishness, religious scripts, hypocrisy, mean-spiritedness, etc. etc. Instead, perhaps you're the one who just needs to accept that this is not the knee-jerk big deal you're making of it. I still haven't heard any more substantial argument than "it offends people."
A few years ago (30 or so), the public education system, unable to produce evidence to the contrary, decided that it would be a good idea to educate teens on the proper use of birth control devices. The conventional wisdom was "hey, they are going to do 'it' anyway, we may as well help them do it ....safely." Along with that was the sage advice that people should get to know each other intimately before they made the 'mistake' of getting married and finding out they didn't enjoy each other's company. The adults of the day went willingly along since, after all, their marriages had not turned out to be the paradise promised by Disney movies.
There were warnings that this kind of sanctioning of "protected intimacy" by the significant adults in charge would lead to irresponsibility, followed by many unwanted pregnancies, fatherless children, social and medical ills, etc. The warnings were pooh poohed as meritless...after all we were advocating for the opposite, right?..."Safety, and protection. The next generation would have good marriages and the problems of 'unprotected sex' would disappear."
Now we have fifty year olds who are still trying people out in the sack, not having found Ms Right....yet. Millions of fatherless children, who fathered millions more fatherless children and the social ills that go along with it....However, I am sure X has a neighbor someplace that is a pillar of the community now that she found Mr. Right at 60; course we wont hear the news of her messy divorce at 62.
That horse is out of the barn and the advocates of it have either become silent (too late) or are all busy writing revisions to justify what took place. They did protect our children though, right? |
