| Morality is not the same thing as sexual abstinence. |
| Morality encompasses a much broader arena that sexual practices. Keeping teenagers and gays from having sex does not make a society moral. Morality also encompasses how a society treats "the least of these," it's less fortunate. It also includes how it treats other members of the world community, the global environment that we all have to share, and how resources are allocated among the various members of society, both national and global. [S]ome 40 percent of girls get pregnant while they are still teenagers. Meanwhile, 98 percent of parents in one pediatric study said their teens were virgins. You do the math. Source: "Pregnancy in the name of protection" by Ellen Goodman - Washington Post Writers Group - 09.16.05 |
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