Having made a blunder that now
threatens the human family, one would
_ think the designers would be
* backtracking and apologizing for their
- miscalculations. Instead, they continue
to lobby Congress and corporate
: America for more money. Given the
- misinformation extant on this subject,
“they'll probably get it.
> But if you were a pent

couples in which one 4
partner was infected . -
with HIV found that 17%

yb :
Certainly not. You would say, “Please. ;

don't jump: . Your life is at stake!” How —

anil mariage, ‘Almost 65 oeoatof all
high school females under: 18 are
ce

a youth event was held that featured no.

sports contest, no rock groups—just an
-convict named Harold Morris : |.
talking about abstinence, among other
subjects. The coliseum seated 18,000.
people, but 26,000 teenagers showed
“up! Eventually, more than 2,000 siood

listened over a hastily prepared public
address system. Who says kids won't
listen to this time-honored message?
Even teens who have been sexually
active can choose to stop. This is often
called “secondary virginity,” a good

‘concept that conveys the idea that kids

can start over. One young girl recently
wrote Ann Landers to say she wished
she had kept her virginity, signing
the letter, “Sorry I didnt ¢ and wish
I could take it bac
responsible adults we need to
j tell her that even though: she
can't go back, she cai: g0
forward. She can regain her seli-
fespect and protect her health,
y because it's never too late to start
saying “no” to premarital sex.

y based programs for kids?
_ Thankfully, some excellent
programs have been developed.
Spokane-based Teen-Aid and
Chicago's Southwest Parents

” Committee are good examples. So are
‘Next Generation in Maryland, Choices
-in California and Respect Inc. in

Iinois. Other curzicula such as Facing

' Reality; Sex Respect; Me, My World,

My Future; Reasonable Reasons to:
Wait; Sex, Love & Choices; FA.C.TS.

- eic., are all abstinencs-themed

programs to help kids make good
sexual decisions. ;
A good curriculum for i inner-city

"youth is Elayne Bennett’s Best Friends.
_- Program. This successful “mentoring”

project heips adolescents in

You place major responsibility on
those who have told adolescents that
sexual expression is their right as
long as they do it “properly.” Who
else has contributed to the epidemic?

The entertainment industry must

- certainly share the blame, including

television producers. It is interesting in
this context that all four networks and
the cable television entities are
wringing their hands about this terrible
epidemic of AIDS. They profess to be
very concerned about those who are
infected with sexually transmitted
diseases, and perhaps they are sincere.
However, TV executives and movie
moguls have contributed mightily to

the existence of this plague. For -

decades, they have depicted teens and
young adults climbing in and out of

‘each other's beds like so many sexual ~ -

robots. Only the nerds were shown to”
be chaste, and they were too stupid or.
ugiy to find partners.

’ Of course, the beautiful young
actors in those steamy dramas never —
faced any consequences for their-
sexual indulgence. No one ever came
down with herpes, or syphilis, or
cldamydia, or pelvic inflammatory
disease, or infertility, or AIDS, or’:
genital warts, or cervical cancer.’ No"

patients were ever told by a physician ©

that there was ‘no cure for their disease .-
or that they would have to deal with -
the pain for the rest of their lives: No
one ever heard that genital cancers

“associated with the human papilloma

“virus (HPV) kill more women than.”

DR. JAMES DOBSON AND
FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
IS HEARD ORILY ON
THE LOWER MAIHLAND:
CHO 132GAM — 9:30p.m. MF; |.
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to have sex and who[m] to have it
with.

* Ihave the right to use protection :
when J have sex.

I have the right to buy and use

‘condoms.

* [have the righi to express myself.
* Thave the right to ask for help if 1.
need it. : a
Under this final item (the right to ~~
ask for help) is a list of organizations ..
and phone numbers that readers are -
encouraged to call: The philosophy that’
governs several of the organizations
reflects the homosexual agenda, which -
includes recruitment of the young and
vigorous promotion ofa teen’ s fight to:
sexual expression, 9.

" Your tax dollars at work!

"Surely there are

"who recognize the dange

threatening a generation o

‘and brightest. It is time to speak up| for

an old-fashioned value called virginity.
Now, more than ‘ever, virtue is

- necessity.

If you agree with Focus on the

_ Family that it is time for a new

- “your congressman Senator.
“afore copies | the PTA. And “by

AIDS,” or that strains. of gonorthea are _
~ now resistant to penicillin.” my

No, there was no downside: It all

looked like so rauch fun. But what a

Washington, D.C., graduate from high _

:. school and remain abstinent. In five

years, not one female has become

- pregnant while in the Best Fi riends

Program!
Establishing and nurturing

‘abstinence ideas with kids, however,

can be like spitting into the wind. Not

* because they won't listen, because

most will. But pro-abstinence
messages are drowned out in a sea of

’ toxic teen-sex-is-inevitable-use-a-

condom propaganda from “safe-sex"
professionals. .

price-we are paying now for the lies we
have been told. :

’ The government has also

-. contributed to this crisis and continues

to exacerbate the problem. For

example, a current brochure from the —

federal Centers for Disease Control. . -

and the City of New York is entitled, °°
“Teens Have the Right,” and is:

apparently intended to free adolescents -

from adult authority. Inside are the six.

declarations that make up a

“Teenager’s Bill of Rights,” as follows:
* [have the right to think for myself.
« [have the right to decide whether:

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