Out of wedlock Sex has a price...and it is one of the things destroying our youth and our nation.

Sex has a price tag ^ | February 29, 2004 | Jeff Head

[Jeff Head]

Today during our church services we held a combined meeting of all of the adult men and women who were not involved teaching our primary aged (2-11) and youth aged (12-18) children. I wanted to report to FR about the meeting and the content and its impact. The meeting had been planned for some time to view the video"

"Sex has a price tag"

A lot of thought and prayer went into presenting this video and its content. We wanted the adult thoughts on this before we hold a meeting for all of the youth in our congregation.

The video is very direct and very plain and straight talking about the sexual revolution and its physical, emotional and spiritual impact on the youth in America...and on adults who practice sex out of wedlock. It is extremely well done and is delivered very professionally and very aptly in the video to a catholic high school assembly meeting by a Pam Stenzel. She uses appropriate humor, straight talk, statistics, clear logic and scriptural reference to reveal the truth about the rampant spread of over 30 STD's in our society today, many of which I had never heard of before, and their impact. She speaks very eloquently about the terrible emotional and mental impact of the consequences of these diseases both to those who contract them...and to any future partners or spouses they may have.

The presentation would not be allowed in public schools because of its religious message...but the overall message is one that every American adult, parent and child from the sixt grade up should hear.

Our congregation is of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but we very willing listened for an hour to a presentation by this good, moral and very talented Catholic woman as she presented the truth ahout the virtue of sex within marriage, and the abject dangers and rampant disease and risk associated with it outside of marriage.

I urge every Freeper to get a copy of this video or cassette and view it yourself...then show it to your entire family...then do all in your power to hold church and community meetings to show it to everyone you can.

The speaker talks of the media's willing efforts to hide and obscure the facts and only present their politcally correct and motivated message that is doooming hundreds of thousands of people, even millions (mainly youth) to misery and eventual death by not presenting all of the facts.

I am completely unaffiliated with the people producing the video, but know it is available in cassette and DVD format as well. I inted to buy one for each of my grown daughters (two married and one single) and send it to them urging them to watch it ASAP and teach the information to their own children (in the case of the married daughters) as soon as they are of age.

I intend to buy many cassettes and vidos and DVD's and to work here in Emmett, ID to have every church in our valley of every denomination look to having similar presentations...ultimately having them all come together for a community presentation to reach as many people and youth as possible.

Needless to say, I was very impressed by this timely and critical message, and despite whatever doctrinal differences my church and denominations have between themselves...this truth is universal and something most all of us can agree on and present for the benefit of all.

[MrConfettiMan]

Thanks for the ping, Jeff.

[MrConfettiMan]

Let me relate a story that unraveled this weekend in a local church that involves sex.

Let me relate a story that involves sex that unraveled this weekend in a local church.

I'm sorry, I just had to reword your first sentence. I just struck me as funny the first time I read it.

The story you describe is a tragedy.

[sushiman]

Thanks for the kind remarks , and best of luck to you !

[xzins]

Excellent points, wai.

Haven't heard from you lately. How's it been going?

[FITZ]

Bump -- and I'll certainly look for it for mine.

[Darnright]

>Hollywood has to be a major, major player in the spread of this cancer.

I agree. I think soap operas are dispicable. If they took out the pre-marital sex and adultery out of those things, the shows would last 10 minutes a day, at best.

[Darnright]

>If they took out the pre-marital sex and adultery out of those things,

Oops, that should have read, "If they took the pre-marital sex and adultery out of those things,"

That'll teach me not to use the preview button.

[SLB]

Let me relate a story that unraveled this weekend in a local church that involves sex.
Let me relate a story that involves sex that unraveled this weekend in a local church.

Thanks. Not enough coffee this morning when I first was trying to type.

[harpseal]

Sad.

[NorseWood]

bump

[Stone Mountain]

For one, I have added "bastard" back in my spoken vocabulary, for its actual meaning.

I have a big problem with this one. I think it's wrong to stigmatize a child for the decisions of his/her parents. Say what you like about the people who made the decision, but leave the innocent child out of it...

[Rollee]

Regrets can haunt you forever.

That needs to be repeated.

[Warhammer]

Bookmark for later.

[netmilsmom]

I just want you to know that I read your post and cried for you. I understood totally that it was not your decision and a pain shot through my heart. Men are left out of the loop in these things.
I agree with Jeff. You will see your baby in heaven. If there is anything like purgatory, you are living it.

To your ex-girlfriend, let me relate a story that was (also) told by many of my ex-boss's patients (I worked for a psychiatrist). A FReeper told a story about his SIL who aborted her first child. When she gave birth to the first child she let be born, she began having dreams of the child she aborted. She would see the child who would call her mommy then when the child would grasp her hand, she would startle awake in a sweat.

We poison the minds of our children by telling them that there are no consequences to Premarital Sex! What ever happened to petting like our Parents did?

[rogers21774]

We poison the minds of our children by telling them that there are no consequences to Premarital Sex! What ever happened to petting like our Parents did?

Whatever happened to just holding hands? Petting leads to "heavy petting", which leads to... well, you get the picture.

[Melas]

That is the most ignorant thing I've ever read.

Let's suppose for a moment that I agree with your evaluation of the situation, and your conclusion that shame must be reintroduced.

You're shaming the victim, not the perpetrators. The offspring is the one that gets hung with the label, and the offspring is the only party here that's innocent of all wrong doing.

[netmilsmom]

You are right!!!!!!!

[King Prout]

do you go into the genetic ramifications of the consequences of rampant promiscuous extramarital sex?

If you do - that takes stones.

If you did not - well, then it is just another screed... worthwhile and right, perhaps, but still just more moralistic moaning.

[DLfromthedesert]

I'm so sorry. That girl is probably also regretting what she did. Most of these young women do not get the information they are entitled to before they make a truly informed decision.

[Lorianne]

Labeling a child a "bastard" is how we got in the abortion quagmire we're in today. That and unilateraly demonizing women who procreate outside of marriage. Demonizing the mother and the child is a sure recipe for anti-life.