Harvard Doc: Abstinence, Monogamy Can Help Win War on AIDS

AgapePress ^ | 10 Mar 05 | Mary Rettig and Jenni Parker

[FormerACLUmember]

Wow, these Harvard dudes must be really, really smart!

Must have taken millions in grant money to figure this rocket science out.

What next, a discovery that men and women are somehow different?

[xzins]

Green says Uganda has been a success story for initiatives that stress abstinence and faithfulness in particular, largely because the churches in the country have helped to promote them. "The faith-based organizations, whether Christian or Muslim, were mobilized in countries like Uganda and Senegal and Jamaica," the researcher says, "so church leaders and religious groups played a big role in targeting those behaviors -- fidelity and abstinence."

ping

[griswold3]

common sense

[xzins]

sounds like his fellow researchers don't like his conclusions.

[yellowdoghunter]

LOL. Excellent post.

[Redbob]

Even more important:
Don't be a butt-boy!

[BrianCG]

and this is news, oh my god, dont have random sex and you wont get aids...stop the press

[Cicero]

This inconvenient fact has long been known in pro-life circles. As soon as the UN and USAID move into an African country with condoms and sex-ed, the AIDS rate skyrockets.

It's absolutely typical of these left-wing bureaucracies that they will only hire scientists willing to prove what they want them to prove. That's one reason why science can no longer be trusted--because the bureaucrats buy the answers they want to hear.

After all, the cushy jobs enjoyed by USAID employes depend on building the bureaucracy, and in this case building the bureaucracy means more and more condoms.

[xzins]

wonder why they're giving this guy grief?

[CzarNicky]

At Harvard this will likely get someone fired.

[Jibaholic]

ping

[ghost of nixon]

what if you don't have the "monogamy" gene?

[squirt-gun]

Duh!

[dynachrome]

I wonder if Lawrence Summers will weigh in on this?

[xzins]

I'll bet poor lawrence has bought himself a replica of the proverbial 10 foot pole.

[polymuser]

I suppose these geniuses will tell us next that not sticking needles in our eyes reduces our chances of eye injury.

[sr4402]

Please don't put this pornography on FreeRepublic!

This thread is about Abstinence and Monogamy and this woman clearly is not in any position to do either one.

I was about to write that no woman should want any man that isn't monogamous. From a woman's standpoint, a non-monogamous man is a threat to her family, in the fact that condoms do not stop STDs as well as the threats from other women (and their boyfriends).

But now I see this picture and see our country is in a far worse state.

Therefore, I pray that the Lord would intervene and make abstinence and monogamy a matter of survival once again. If it takes Super-HIV, then so be it.

May it become so bad that America has no choice but to repent and ask forgiveness. I ask it, Lord, because of this picture and the children which this hurts.

[FormerACLUmember]

bttt