Study after study has demonstrated that urging abstinence is more effective than teaching "safe sex." Teaching abstinence is never fail safe; practicing it is.
Sarah Palin's daughter did not practice what her mother preached. A question posed this morning on ABC was callous, mean-spirited, and wrong headed. The anchor woman went out of her way to point out that Palin is an advocate of abstinance education and that her daughter is now pregnant as if to say, "see, it does not work." The anchor kept stressing this point.
Even ABC should know that you cannot take one instance and make a case for scrapping an entire approach. This would be like saying we should eliminate ABC because of this one blatantly boneheaded and biased question . . . oh, wait a second.
So, ABC takes one example of a failed effort and rubs it in Palin's face. What about all the times that "safe sex" eduction has failed? Will the liberals who think our children are nothing more than horn-dogs who simply cannot control themselves take responsibility for what their assumption has done to American teens?
When we affirm the Biblical model of sex within the parameters of marriage, this is God's best. When we fail, He can restore. There is no restoration in "being safer next time." God heals the heart and gives grace to the humble. The Palins will be just fine.
As for ABC, they never will.
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