A recent letter to the editor of my local paper attacked one vice-presidential candidate for advocating abstinence sex education. The writer blamed the candidate’s belief in teaching abstinence as the cause of the candidates’s teenage daughter’s pregnancy.
If the young lady listened to her parents, it would not have happened. Abstinence is 100 percent effective in preventing unplanned pregnancies.
After four decades of non abstinence secular sex education, our young men and women continue to be tragic victims of this new morality. Nowhere has secular morality, making wrong appear right, taken such a heart wrenching toll than on America’s youth. They pay a burdensome price. The Center for Disease and Control statistics show, in America's major cities, approximately one out of four teenage girls has at least one sexually transmitted disease—some more than one. And the epidemic is spreading to our rural areas. Teenagers’ futures ruined, babies born to infected mothers suffer mental and physical afflictions. For some—mother and/or child—the results are fatal.
Historically, a teenage father and pregnant teenage girl are nothing new. Today it is more than that. Teaching secular ethics instead of Judeo-Christian values has resulted in increased teen suicides, drug abuse, venereal disease, as well as unplanned pregnancies.
Venereal diseases under control in the 1950s are now rampant. Incurable and deadly new sexually transmitted viruses are epidemic. More than 20 sexually transmitted diseases are widespread.
To prevent the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, abstinence is as close to100 percent effective as you can get. Judeo-Christian tangible values, including abstinence, are founded on the idea of self discipline and delaying gratification until the right time. These are values our Nation's secularists have replaced with a moral carte blanche.
It is not good. Is it too late? No, but real change is needed. It will take a complete turn about of our Nation’s direction.
Teenager or senior citizen, in public and private life, America needs to re embrace Judeo-Christian values of self-discipline and personal responsibility.
___________ Michael E. Odell
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- Michael E. Odell
- Michael E. Odell, a political polemicist with a working background in sales, finances, politics, writing, broadcasting, and teaching small business classes on several college campuses. He has authored several books including Gold A Layman’s Investment Manual, Business Plans for Lemonade Stands, and Marketing Plans for Lemonade Stands—and an occasional poem for his own pleasure. He was first elected to the State House of Representatives Spokane Valley’s 4th District in 1962 and ran for Congress in 1968. Fifty years an outspoken advocate of less government and more individual responsibility.