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this is also why the US couldn't support HIV prevention in Africa -- they were advocating condom use, which is just satanic. god wants you to die instead of using a condom.
Some pretty hinky examples of neocon flamebait exist therein. Check it.
Cons over there have this as caused both by promiscuous blacks AND baby-keeping Republican teens refusing the abortions so "liberally" handed out in those satanic blue states...
Didn't I hear those girls wearing rings for purity are more likely to have unprotected sex?
I'll go see if I can find the article.
Well, it actually is a "policy", just not a good one.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5124070...
Thanks Brad, this is not so much comedy as truth, and truth is stranger (and funnier) than fiction!
LOL seriously don't you think it's kinda of odd and seemingly misogynistic that the bible-thumper states seem to have the highest rate of teen birth? WHy then are they so focused on controlling the lives of us gheys? Can't clean up their own backyard?
This should be thrown at them every time they start whining about gays and the liberals in the NE. When you have stellar family values in your state, you can talk about mine.
Here is the disclaimer just for them: "The three states have large proportions of black and Hispanic teenagers — groups that traditionally have higher birth rates, experts noted."
Translation: It is all those satan loving, family value hating, minorities (another reason to put up the boarder fence - all those hispanics coming here to have their babies) are skewing the statiscs
Of course, maybe if they put as much effort into teaching science as the do into teaching the Bible, they might be able to break that chain.
It's just a matter of time before the South breaks out in an epidemic of STD's, which they will ignore or try to pray away.
Basic, non religiously tainted education would improve both their economic status as well as their social and cultural ills.
TampaZeke, native Mississippian
For 2005, 5 out of 1000 women aged 15-44 had abortions in Mississippi, but the national average was 15 per 1000 - three times as many. Connecticut, at 17 is above the national average.
Mississippi has more divorces per population than Connecticut, but that is only because they have more marriages as well. Their rate of divorces per marriage is among the lowest in the US; Connecticut's is among the highest.
http://www.statemaster.com/graph/hea_abo_rat-he...
I find it very disappointing how, to promote an agenda, people on the internet will fabricate statistics.
The key folks, is reputable citations. Without that, assume everything you hear is made up.
Otherwise, we have to deal with the facts as they are. Teens want to have sex and they can't help it. In the olden says people married young and died young. Now, evolution has not caught up with science, so we live longer and marry later.
Waiting until marriage only makes you lose life experiences. It's ok to have sex before marriage if you can be smart about it- if you're educated about it- which doesn't happen with religious influence- they just make you feel guilty for being you.
It's beyond me why catholics, like myself (now former catholic,) can't read history and find out that the WHOLE anti-gay, anti-abortion, anti-contraception kick came about because the church TAXED you for how many kids you had. Gay= no kids = = no $$$ = bad/evil.
*Get it?*
Man used the fear of God, changed the bible and added all the "sex is bad unless you having a kid" BS.
Man is fallible, and the Bible was placed in the fallable hands of the rich and powerful... you don't think they altered it?
Don't be so naive.
Humans were meant to express themselves sexually. Stifle that, and you stifle what makes us a living creature.
This is true. It is also sad that so many people do not have the experiences of the wide variety of venereal diseases that are available to experience and enjoy. More experiences is always good.
Don, that is just stupid and you know it. Don't you get it? That's why sex ed is SO important (for just one example) to teach kids HOW TO AVOID STDs! But you righties are against letting your children take sex ed, SO they get STDs, and get pregnant, and get abortions. Circularly illogical, under educated, and close-minded; that's the far right, all right! Close-mindedness is an ugly thing Don. Don't subject your chilren to it and ruin their lives as you have ruined yours!
And yet we have the highest rates for allowing gays to marry and adopt. Why aren't gay people destroying our families in the NE???
Go ahead and jump to conclusions, twist the facts, and blame everything on the Jesus gang if it makes you feel better.
This is for birth rate, not pregnancy rate. What is the actual pregnancy rate? To find that out, you'd have to figure out how many teen abortions are happening across the US.
BINGO. Red staters/repubs don't want their children to have any sex ed, and they rant and rail against the liberals (and sex ed). Then their daughter(s) get pregnant and quietly get an abortion. "Now, go to confession/church so all will be forgiven!" "Oh, ok, I'm forgiven? Cool!" Boink! ... Repeat the above
If I were a conspiracy theorist, I'd think you purposefully changed it because high teen pregnancy is bad. High teen births isn't necessarily bad if you're pro-life and the reason for the difference in birth-rates is because abortion isn't as common in cases of teen pregnancy.
So, now you have some research to do. Mississippi may have the highest teen pregnancy rate as well as the highest teen birth rate, but you don't know that. I hope that you will correct the article.
~A New England Pro-Choice Reader
Look, the situation is simple: The goal is a good life based heavily on a good marriage based heavily on taking great pride and pleasure in being good parents. Everyone pursuing anything else is a weak, sick, or dead limb on the tree and at most a tangent to civilization and, in particular, pursuing values that cannot last.
In their late teens, girls are perfectly prepared to be good wives and mothers. All they need a good, deep, loving relationship and marriage with strong marriage vows with a man well prepared to be a good husband and father.
If the girls wait past their teens, then they get frustrated and develop attitudes that conflict with their being good mothers and tend to make them weak, sick, or dead limbs on the tree. E.g., they go to college, have someone on the dorm floor get a lot of vodka and orange juice, deliberately rush to drink enough vodka to get quite drunk, put on a short dress with a loose skirt and nothing else but a pair of shoes, and rush off to a party to 'hook-up' where they have sex with as many different men as possible -- without even knowing their names or remembering them the next day. Some college 'education'. For this people pay $50,000 a year?
Why? Because the girls are following the herd of popular culture written by women who are not being successful as teenage wives and mothers and, instead, as has been common for such women going back at least 100 years, have sour grapes about being good as wives and mothers and, instead, loudly claim to want to be liberated, autonomous, self-sufficient, and equal, where sex with strangers, maybe in public, without a relationship is just fun, all friction, no affection, as much fun for the girls as for a old, simplistic image of men. It's nonsense, degenerate, degrading, dangerous, destructive nonsense, but it's what popular culture likes.
By the time such people get married, sex, adultery, fidelity, and much of the marriage itself are all meaningless, divorce is much more likely, good parenting is impossible, and they become weak, sick, or dead limbs on the tree and society suffers. BUMMER.
Lady Di was a teenage mother and one of the most beautiful, desirable, wonderful, promising women who ever lived. Unfortunately she married an IDIOT who talked to his plants and mostly wanted from another married woman the mothering he didn't get from the queen.
Again, in their late teens, girls are perfectly prepared to be good wives and mothers, and all they need is a good, deep, loving relationship and marriage with strong marriage vows with a man well prepared to be a good husband and father.
For the dead limbs on the tree, we should just call them that. Then the men can have sex for money with women who are whores with no good impact on the future.
But a high school education is not enough, and the girls need more? Okay, then give them more, in grades 1-12. How? Easy: Currently grades 1-12 are mostly just babysitting with next to no real, significant, or useful educational content. So, replace the babysitting with the needed education. They can learn accounting and get ready for their CPA exam, learn nursing, learn computing, etc. Much of the learning can be from video lessons and tested with standardized tests.
Look, "Men and women deserve equal respect as persons but are not the same". In particular, women need to be good wives and mothers, and men need to be good husbands and fathers, and these two roles are VERY different.
Good comedy is getting scarce and we can all use some levity during these tense times.
The South is . . .
Deep in the Bible Belt
Lesser overall wealthy
Poorer overall school system
The white haired racists which make up a good percentage of the Repubs need to keep some population down to make themselves look better.
Then their 14 year old daughter gets pregnant.
Oh wait, THAT'S DIFFERENT. A quiet abortion is performed, then ah, back to normal like nothing happened.
Except they don't bark quite as loud about sex and birth control now.
we can't keep pretending like this isn't happening!!!!!
-concerned teen mom
the best way to go..... talk to your child, reassure them if they are pregnant be a loving and caring statue in their time of need and doubt. dont berate them and talk down to them..... because deep inside that little girl with the growing child.... is still your little girl and needs her mommy more than ever.
trust me i know