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Message #113264 posted by forged registration (Info) March 13, 2008 15:16:49 ET
In Reply to: Re: 1 in 4 teen girls has an STD posted by Dabullz (Info) March 13, 2008 14:45:13 ET
"25,000,000 folks have died of AIDS since '81. Surely the numbers can be
twisted any way you want regarding how they contracted the disease,
however, anyone can agree a majority of those folks got it through illicit sex."
- i do not agree...i think most of them got AIDS through needles, marital sex, and blood...over 60% of africans with aids are women, many of whom were monogamous...millions of VIRGIN african children acquired AIDS from their mothers...IMO everyone who gets aids is a victim regardless of whether they stuck a needle in their arm, screwed a prostitute, or sucked the virus out of their mother's breast...blaming most of it on illicit sex is blaming the sinner-victim...by most definitions, illicit sex is any sex outside of marriage, but most people have sex outside of marriage so it is unreasonable to blame people for doing what comes naturally, but instead it is better to limit the damage that can arise from following our god-given natural impulses...abstinence is not going to get results because sex is instinctual and fun...we can't even stop heterosexual men from having sex with eachother in prison!
your statistical compilation is interesting but illicit sex is not the only cause of single parents: half of marriages fail at some point...besides, there is no direct connection between a parent's illicit sex and children's drug/tobacco use - almost all married people had illicit sex before they had children so illicit sex by itself is not the cause of the suffering in your statistics
maybe the world would be a better place if sex only happened inside marriage, but it would not be a better place if we forced people not to have sex...like it or not, humans were having sex for a very long time before the artificial institution of marriage was created, and as that institution continutes to decline, we cannot pretend that sex will ever be restricted to marriage, nor rely on that as a cure for the aids epidemic
AIDS is not a moral issue: it is a health issue...the more that we focus on containing aids with religious morality, the worse it will get
i didn't get married until i was in my 30's...i think i would have exploded if i didn't have illicit sex (and my kids are just fine thanks)
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