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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWith High Premarital Sex And Abortions Rates, Evangelicals Say It's Time To Talk About Sex
(RNS) The statistics, some evangelicals say, can no longer be ignored.
Eighty percent of young evangelicals have engaged in premarital sex, according to a new video from the National Association of Evangelicals. and almost a third of evangelicals' unplanned pregnancies end in abortion.
It's time to speak honestly about sex because abstinence campaigns and anti-abortion crusades often aren't resonating in their own pews, evangelical leaders say.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/23/evangelicals-sex-frank-talk_n_1443062.html?ref=religion
Oh my. Aren't they the ones shutting down Planned Parenthood and bombing abortion centers? Does this mean their kids have normal hormones?
Occulus
(20,599 posts)Fuck them. ALL of them. Right in the ear.
nolabear
(41,991 posts)And I'd LOVE to be a fly on the wall during THOSE birds and bees talks.
appleannie1
(5,068 posts)4th law of robotics
(6,801 posts)We'll see, but I hope so.
Sex education shouldn't even be an issue these days.
LiberalFighter
(51,084 posts)than those in mainstream reasonable religions or atheists?
Initech
(100,102 posts)If they really want to get serious about reversing their damaging policies then we'll talk.
DippyDem
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enough
(13,262 posts)Younger evangelicals are obviously not as paralyzed by fear of sex. They're having sex (and abortions) no matter what their elders tell them. Just as younger Catholics are using contraception no matter what the church says.
Seems like a positive development to me.
Lucy Goosey
(2,940 posts)Are they admitting they were wrong about something? Are they letting facts trump beliefs?
This must be very scary for them.
MineralMan
(146,329 posts)of the horrors of sex, complete with diseased genitalia, etc. Start showing them to the children in kindergarten and repeat weekly until they graduate from high school.
That ought to do it, I think. Is this smilie needed?
bongbong
(5,436 posts)> Eighty percent of young evangelicals have engaged in premarital sex,
As always for conservatives, it's "Do as I say, not as I do". If these insane nutjobs really believed in all their religious mumbo-jumbo, it boggles the mind how they can lie so often.
Oh wait, according to them, you can lie, cheat, steal, murder, etc, etc all you want. Just gotta talk to the voices in your head about how sorry you are, and you get another "I can still go to heaven" card.