{"id":5985,"date":"2005-07-10T13:04:38","date_gmt":"2005-07-10T18:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2005\/07\/10\/screw-abstinence\/"},"modified":"2005-07-10T13:04:38","modified_gmt":"2005-07-10T18:04:38","slug":"screw-abstinence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2005\/07\/screw-abstinence\/","title":{"rendered":"Screw Abstinence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes those that call themselves pro-choice let the mask slip a little and we see behind the false words and platitudes. A case in point is this banner [via K Lopez at The Corner<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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As President Aristotle said<\/a> "Well, we always knew that our pro-abortion friends had a couple screws loose" and that the "screwy attitudes of the NARAL clinch the point."<\/p>\n

Many times those of use who are called pro-life call the other side pro-abortion. More accurately they are "pro-sex without babies." Abortion and contraception support is a consequence of this view. Their view on abstinence follows the same path and instead of saying what they are really advocating they hide behind strange theories. For example their hatred of abstinence is shrouded under the champaign view of sexuality. That is if you don’t pop the cork early it is going to explode. Since abstinence education has mainly been at the high school level it also betrays their view that sex among teenagers is to be encouraged and that nothing must get in the way of it. They have reversed Darwin. We have not evolved from the animals but are moving back towards them. That if we don’t have sex worse things will happen to us. They attack abstinence because they say people won’t be prepared when they fall and then will have "unsafe" sex. Of course to them unsafe sex is more than STDs it includes pregnancy. They deny that man is a moral creature that can control its appetites or behaviors. Yet at the same time they think that we can control our appetites and behaviors by first training us to use a condom and other anti-baby control measures. We have devolved back to animal instinct since "we are going to do it anyway." Of course their Screw Abstinence Party is restricted to those aged 21 or older which is ironic considering their stance on sex education. If sexually explicit sex ed in high schools with the agenda of encouragingly sexual activity is perfectly acceptable than why should they restrict access to their raunchy party with sex toys? If teenage sexuality activity is perfectly fine then why is there this demarcation of adults only?<\/p>\n

When I first saw this banner I thought of doing some really snarky banner such as "Nail NARAL" or something in that vein. I quickly realized that this is the wrong approach.<\/p>\n

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Update<\/font>: Updated the banner due to reader suggestions to make it less ambiguous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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