[Morgana]

I actually agree with this article. Which is why it's a good idea to teach your kids to be "very religious" from the time they are "very young".

Also try to avoid electing Presidents who say "Oral sex is not sex" if at all possible.

[Steve_Seattle]

But pretty much 100% of gays are practicing risky sex, yet THAT behavior is ENCOURAGED by society. Do I detect a double-standard here?

[fwdude]

I think “virginity pledges” just make you a target for the promiscuous a$$holes out there who want a challenge. Why announce it as some kind of badge of honor?

Just quietly live a godly life, and what is seen in secret will be rewarded openly in good time.

[a fool in paradise]

Academia, the medical profession, media, the DNC, Planned Parenthood, Girl Scouts USA, et al are TRYING to raise girls up to be sexually active and experimental.

It isn’t just the “peer pressure” to “give it up”, it’s the “establishment”.

[GraceG]

I believe in Sex Ed that is similar to the old school “Drivers Ed” where people are show pictures from high speed car crashes, only in this case it is pictures of people damaged by STDs...

[lurk]

A pledge by itself is just a piece of paper. It takes an involved father to protect a child, and prayer.

[Buckeye McFrog]

The leader of some major Evangelical abstinence group has a teenage daughter who became pregnant. The DUmmies are chortling with glee over that.

Even with best intentions you can’t control every decision your teenage kids make every second of every day.

[Mr Rogers]

Am I the only one who remembers when abstinence was ASSUMED?

[left that other site]

Interestingly enough, this article is obliquely stating that only the “Very Religious” are capable of being trustworthy and keeping a promise or a pledge.

That’s a real slap in the face to people who are NOT “very religious”. hahaha

[DoodleDawg]

Virginity Pledges (Still) Don’t Work, Unless You’re Really Religious

Or very serious about it.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

People are meant to get married young. Expecting them to wait until they are thirty when they have their education and career established is a relatively new phenomenon, and a recipe for promiscuity and all manner of perversions.

The best marriages I know of are people who got married young, many times because they "had to get married."

[Dr. Thorne]

Without God, the very concept of morality is meaningless. Who is to say what is right and what is wrong? Does the wolf feel he has done something wrong when he kills the sheep? Without God setting the moral boundaries of life, morality becomes a political football in the hands of the powerful. They toss it around for their own benefit.

Humanism is a joke. Consensus is a pathetic, fraudulent method for creating an entirely flimsy and shifting set of laws based on avarice.

[Organic Panic]

HAHAHAHAA. Oh the purity ring.

Back in my early college dating days I was going to a very large church in the city. I was dating one girl with a sister who were wearing “purity” rings given to them by the church, along with every other young woman. As soon as those girls met the new college stud that ring came off faster than their blouses. When confronted it was just the “you don’t understand” response. That was when I became aware of the ‘friend zone’ and learned a lot about young women’s approach to dating.

[Fledermaus]

Only a liberal thinks abstinence is “unrealistic” because, as usual, they are projecting themselves onto the issue.

Just because they are unable to keep their pants on doesn’t mean everyone can’t.