Duhhhhh!
I was watching the Today show early early this morning because I am trying to get my clock set for working midnights. Anyways the showed a story twice this morning about these father daughter purity balls that are being held in the states. There was one statistic that had me on the floor laughing, it was so funny that I had to show Max when he got up this morning (thank you Starchoice and TimeShifting!!) Here's the statistic: 88% of those who pleged purity until marriage had premarital sex! Saying and doing are two differing things aren't they!!
But think about it, when I was 15 I didn't want anything to do with my dad. I didn't want to be caught dead with him in public. Plus it was one of those things if he showed any interest in my life whatsoever I would think that he switched his mind altering drugs. So the idea of pledging my purity to my father was not a happening thing. I am statistic anomally. My father was not a emotional part of my life, he was there physically and yes we fought like cats and dogs. But I was not the one to fool around, I left that to the Catholic girls that I went to school with.
The thing is in America there is literally no sex education in the schools. The religious right is making sure that it's the parents who teach their children. Most of the are so frigid that the thought of talking about sex to their children is a definite no go zone. But here's the thing that most parents forget, children are curious creatures. They want to know about the world around them. The will get their information from anywhere!! ANYWHERE!! To them, their friends are experts.
So here's some advice to parents out there who are scared shitless about talking about sex to their children. Which would you rather have, a child who is well-informed (who will then likely inform their friends) and knows risks associated with sexual contact. Or would you like to be young grandparents or worse yet a child who has syphillis or gonorrea, because that stuff is out there and Murphy's Law, shit does happen.
P.S. The fear of god doesn't scare most children!!
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Regarding those Purity Balls that our government is helping fund....
It's interesting to note that many of the churches who originally promoted this idea are Reconstructionist groups, rather than mainstream Christian denominations. Reconstructionism is a rapidly growing and arguably heretical sect of Christianity, whose adherents follow the teachings of John Rousas Rushdoony and Gary North in addition to and often instead of those of Jesus Christ, and their goal is to eventually take over America and install their brand of faith as the state religion.
Here are a couple of websites that will show you what many of these folks really believe:
http://0rz.com/?vDVsP
http://0rz.com/?vcDYg
http://0rz.com/?NsCrB
And, here is a link for VisionForum, a HUGE promoter of a similar idea -- the Father-Daughter Retreat concept -- and one of America's leading homeschooling curriculum companies. VisionForum is run by Doug Phillips, son of ex-Reagan cabinet member Howard Phillips and pastor of Boerne Christian Assembly, a hyper-patriarchal Reconstructionist congregation where women are relegated to virtual slavery in their own homes, denied higher education, forbidden to hold jobs or seek public office, and are discouraged from voting; they are not permitted to participate in prayer in the church services, make prayer requests in church, or even receive communion unless it is served to them by their husband or another male member of the congregation.
http://www.visionforum.com/
The Phillipses are quite the father and son team, too -- Howard Phillips is the founder of the Constitution Party, whose 2004 presidential nominee was League of the South member Michael Peroutka. While the Constitution Party courted the votes of the League of the South (identified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center) and other neoConfederate groups in 2004, Howard's son, Pastor Doug, was hard at work garnering the Christian vote, encouraging his congregation to vote for Peroutka and warning them that they were not spiritually "at liberty" to vote for the Bush or Kerry because of their unBiblical stances on key issues.
And our government is funding father-daughter dinner dances for these groups. Sweet.
You honestly didn't understand what I was trying to get at!
I think I did.. I was just furnishing some additional information that you might find interesting.
Ahhh no you didn't!
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