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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: aladin who wrote (25888)1/23/2004 1:31:35 PM
From: Sam  Read Replies (1) of 793756
 
John,
It is the "one size fits all" (so to speak) abstinence program that I and the people I know on "the left," as we are so absurdly called, object to. I have been married and monogamous for quite a few years now, but I certainly wasn't so in my late teens and 20s. That was before AIDs was an issue, to be sure, but I rather stupidly played pregnancy roulette games (not to mention unthinking STD games) more than once (without consequence, VERY fortunately for me). I was not alone in this. When you're young many of us do idiotic things like that. This was true even before the 60s and 70s, though it mushroomed and became far more public then. It is clearly even more true in many other cultures (though some like to pretend this is not so). For the Bush admin to push "abstinence only" at home without recognizing human behavioral realities and wihtout incorporating it with at least reasonably intelligent alternatives is, IMO, had enough, but to attempt to impose it on cultures where it has absolutely zero resonance is typical of an administration that is tone deaf to every POV other than a certain patriotic, conservative American POV; and that is why this admin has generated more mistrust and resentment abroad and at home than any other in history.
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