Forget about the Sinclair group getting ready to run “Stolen Honor” to help inform the people about Kerry’s questionable character, but am I the only one who has noticed Turner run cable stations running a marathon of the Denzel Washington “Hillarycare” ad in movie form called “John Q?” And yes, Hillary and Bill Clinton do make appearances in the movie.

The timing of the running of this political ad posing as a movie is quite suspect so don’t fret Sinclair. Johnny boy is getting and has received more than his fair share of equal time.

Raymond C. Coleman
Tampa, FL

Ummmm… NO seems to do the trick for me.”

That requires the consent of a man. Not much of a problem in some parts, but a problem in more patriarchical societie.

Ummmm… NO seems to do the trick for me.

“Too often, notes Reeves, poor women cannot insist on either of those options. “If you don’t have an income and he does, or if you don’t have another way of feeding your children, or if you are an immigrant and undocumented,” it is harder to demand anything — be it condom use or marriage — from a partner.”

Ummmmm… again… NO seems to work for me.

Again, the typical spray weed killer on it as opposed to killing the the weed at the root, so it comes back stronger and worse later on.

“the world is at it again, lets de-sensitize the topic, Drudge talks about a hero’s (Green Arrow) sidekick is HIV-positive,”

Wait, WHAT?! I’ve been reading comics for nearly my entire life, and I’m currently reading both Green Arrow and Outsiders (where Roy Harper is currently appearing), and I’ve never heard anything about this.

http://www.powerlineblog.com/

With three young sons and a daughter, my wife and i know that our greatest challenge is protecting their innocence from the constant onslaught of instant gratification and objectifying fellow humans. In that sense, I guess we are like Noah and his family, keeping the faith while the world aroundthem — hunters of man, sexual depravity; sounds almost like our progressive day & age — mocked God as they went to hell en masse.

I love it most when someone with a “secular” mindset throws out the more money comments, safe sex education etc….

We’ve tired that for decades…

Has it worked?

Ummm…obviously NO! or we would not be here on this thread reading this post.

Teaching personal responsibility and accountabily, and the consequences of our actions can go a LONG way (more so than a condom anyday), but that all ceased when the government decided to get involved in “how” (or “how we don’t”) raise our children and decided to give that job to the education system. Wrong Answer. Now we have grown adults who don’t know yes from no, right from wrong, and every decision they make is someone elses responsibility. Sometimes enough is enough and you have to let people learn the hard way (it’s like talking to a brick wall).

“That is what I’d be doing and not just tell them how to have “safe sex.”

As a Christian I know all about “taking people where they are.” It’s part of the Gospel message. That is, Christ wants us to come to him as we are. No need to clean up first.

A broken and a contrite heart – these, O God, You will not despise. Psalm 51:17

Thanks for telling it like it is—yet again.

People who blame W. for AIDS often reason thus: the government exists to defend rights; people have the right to have “consensual sex” whenever and with whomever without unpleasant consequences; therefore the government has to make sure that they can.

I would argue that the second premise is pretty questionable.

You often hear the following counter-argument: “abstinence is the ideal, but the reality is that people are going to have sex anyway, so let’s at least make sure it’s safe sex.”

The problem with this response, though, is that it takes for granted today’s sexual mores as an unquestion-able GIVEN. But why should it be . . . unless one thought that the only problem with those mores is their risk to bodily health, and not their risk to soul health (if you will permit me another old-fashioned word)?

To put it another way: it probably takes as much effort to get people to change their habits about condom use as it does to get them to change their sexual habits(otherwise advoactes of condoms would not be wringing their hands about lack of awareness of safe sex). Consequently, if your effort is going all in the direction of educating about condoms, and not about abstinence, perhaps it’s because you don’t really place as high a value on abstinence as you do on “safe sex.”

The issue, then, is whether we care enough about people to tell them the truth about behavior that degrades their dignity as people.

But there’s also a practical side to this. So long as we put all of our effort into condoms and such, while leaving in place the sexual behavior, the message we’re sending is that consensual sex with anyone anywhere is perfectly OK. But the more that attitude spreads, the more the problems—teenage pregnancy, venereal disease, etc., etc.—will spread. So that, by passing out condoms instead of trying to teach abstinence, we’ll just be multiplying the troubles that we claim to be curing with our safe-sex bandaids.

Of course, teaching abstinence will fail if we think of abstinence as just antother form of safe-sex, just another bandaid, rather than as an alternative to the culture of promiscuous “consensual sex.” What’s at stake, then, is nothing less than a whole vision of the human person and his or her sexuality. Of course, it’s tough to spread a vision of the human being (so much so that government may not be the most appropriate vehicle for this—the Churches have got to take responsibility for this). But, since what we’re talking about is human beings, and about their dignity as such, isn’t it worth the effort?

Adrian

And, from a *policy* perspective. The *policy* of many correctional *systems* of turning a blind eye to sex among male inmates and not provide condoms can be directly linked to the high incidence of HIV in prisons. Heaven forbid to ask the system who is entrusted with the care of individuals (and yes, i know they are criminals, so don’t start with that), to take some steps to protect their well-being. Providing access to condoms is a cheap and simple preventitive measure. So, the writer of the article is justified to point a finger at policy makers for contributing to the spread of HIV.

“An estimated 65% of male inmates — even the straight ones — have sex”. With who, if they’re straight? I think if I’m ever sentenced to prison, I’ll kill myself first.