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Politics : To be a Liberal,you have to believe that..... -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: greenspirit who wrote (2600)	9/16/1999 1:39:00 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6418

Do you believe that homosexuality is innate or acquired? Do you think that teaching children that gay people are not worse than other people is tantamount to "advertising for homosexuality"? The cause is risky conduct. The "best" protection is monogamy or abstinence. Of course. But when you see people fcking like bunnyrabbits with no protection at all, it seems only common sense to slip them a rubber or two, with an admonition to be smart. The teaching that sex is nothing more than an animal urge and that nothing more is expected, trivializes sexual relationships.* Sex is an animal urge. Adults expect more, but a lot of kids get into trouble before they come to grips with those expectations. It's a real problem, and it needs to be dealt with. A lot of kids go into teenage times with very little discipline and very little parental attention. They are socially insecure and desperately looking for affection and human validation. Schools cannot alter this matrix by suddenly pulling abstinence out of a hat. If the parents have given a kid the confidence and security that produces the strength to abstain, that kid is not going to dive into the sack with someone just because condoms are available. If a kid doesn't have that foundation, teaching abstinence in class is not going to help. How many teenaged girls have given in because they honestly believed it was the only way anybody would ever love them? Do we offer them condemnation or understanding? As a parent, I believe that training for abstinence begins at infancy. What do we do when kids want what they can't have? Do we give in, do we smack them, or do we remove them from the scene, hold them while they cry, and explain as well as we can why we must do what we must do? If we take the third way, we train our kids to abstain. But kids who enter adolescence without that foundation are not going to be brought to abstinence by a teacher. And when th schools see themselves being inundated with kids that are not prepared, should they preach against the tide or hand out lifejackets? "Give me a child until he is 7, and he is mine for life." - Attributed to the Jesuits PS. I can't for the life of me imagine why anybody would want gays not to marry. Who are they hurting? Who cares?