Posted by
Defend America on Friday, February 12, 2010 1:14:59 PM
Abstinence and the Left
Why does the New York Times hate teen abstinence?
Alarmed by a recent well-publicized
study
showing that abstinence education succeeded while “safe sex” and
“comprehensive” sex-ed programs failed, the Left has abandoned its
“abstinence doesn’t work” claim and drawn up a new line of defense.
Consider what the
New York Times had to say. According to its editorialists, the newly evaluated abstinence program succeeded because it was “
freed from the moralistic overtones and ideological restrictions” of prior abstinence education.
You
can bet that anyone who pontificates about “moralistic overtones” in
abstinence education has never held an actual abstinence curriculum in
his hands, let alone read one.
Why does abstinence education
come under unending, if completely uninformed, attack? In part, because
abstinence was strongly associated with the Bush administration — and
anything tied to Bush has always been fair game to liberals.
http://article.nationalreview.com/424834/abstinence-and-the-left/robert-rector