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To: SilentZ who wrote (146130)	4/24/2002 1:23:56 AM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 1575596

Organized religion has forfeited much of its credibility in advising people on sexual mores. It's tragic but hardly a surprise. Baptists have long ignored their sexually obsessed hypocrite leaders like Jimmy Swaggarts and Jim Baker. Now the Catholics are busted for something even worse. And you know the Islamics hide away their women, shame them to cover themselves and then do a lot of buggering. Sexual repression in all cases leads to evil acts. Time for religions to admit we are all human with sexual desires we should be able to act on in responsible ways (but not harmful perverted ones) and to quit being hypocrites with their heads in the sand. I watched this moral conservative on Hannity-Colmes today boasting about lecturing high school kids to abstain from sex. Yeah, as if that works. Colmes asked her what she would tell her teenaged daughter if she KNEW the girl was going to have sex and she couldn't stop her. The moralist blustered and blurted she would tell her she'd get herpes and AIDS (and die?). That condoms can't protect you, etc. In other words, drum in the message that sex = death and disease, while at the same time deny the girl sex education. In other words, be dishonest with your kid and try to make them think sex is dirty and deadly. That will only lead to disturbed kids. Religions are going to have to get real or start becoming more and more harmful and irrelevant. Hopefully stay tuned for married priests and maybe-finally admissions religions need to OK birth control and condoms. That alone will stop more abortions and unwanted babies than anything else they will ever do, not to mention over-population. Sad thing that religion if often the root cause of some of our most critical problems.