[Xenalyte]

Why?

In all seriousness, why should we help someone who demonstrated bad judgement against the teachings her family instilled in her?

Where’s the learning in bailing out someone?

Where I come from, we don’t celebrate bad behavior, in contrast to the FReeper who posted a Bristol Shower Thread earlier today.

[longtermmemmory]

It is not a celebration of bad behavior. It is positive reinforcemtn of right decisions in the face of bad behavior.

This girl is going to grow up faster. This young manis going to be a father much sooner than most these days.

If you abandon and cruify those that by their deeds (not words) make right over the wrong then you will never have redemption.

A 17year old screwed up.

She was however part of a family that raised her to be strong enough, and a family that supported her enough, to give her the strenght to made the right decisions regadless of the pressure to “just have an abortion.”

[Truthsearcher]

Because life is not about not making mistakes, it’s about how one deals with them.

The most important thing is that the way the family reacted to her is precisely the kind of response that a young woman in a similar situation needs to see and believe she can also receive. The alternative is fingers of accusation of rejection that will almost certainly push those young women who are in similar situations and not sure what to do to make the wrong decision with regards to whether or not to abort the baby.

And in the ends, the fact that those lives are in the balance might end up being even more important than who wins and loses elections.

[dschapin]

We have to have mercy and forgive because God had mercy and forgave us. If don’t forgive, we won’t be forgiven. Have you ever lost your temper, had an impure thought, or said something unkind? I know that I have and all of those things are sins. In God’s eyes those sins are just as evil as a kid having premarital sex. Now, premarital sex has larger consequences but she is stepping up and accepting those consequences so we need to love and forgive her not shoot our wounded.

[cyberaxe]

.....first, please don't take this personally.....

.....but my simple mind can't rap around how.....

.....dissing the best chances we (Americans) have at avoiding more of exactly what is being discussed here.....

.....by "rewarding" those that would profit by exploiting this.....

[tsmith130]

Where’s the learning in bailing out someone?

How is she being bailed out?