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To: Sub-Driver

I posted this in another thread, but I think it belongs here too.

I teach in a very well regarded Catholic secondary school in Australia - a Jesuit school (generally regarded as one of the top two Catholic schools in the country - alongside its brother school in Sydney, and one of the twenty or so top schools in general).

They stress abstinence as the best way for their students. The ideal choice. The choice they hope they’ll all make, and the choice they expect them to take. The boys are left in no doubt of what is and isn’t expected of them.

And then they get on to the practicalities. As a non-Catholic I was rather surprised the first time I encountered it, but they tell the boys all about contraception and how to use it if they decide to have sex. I’ve heard one of the Priests put it pretty simply.

“If you’re having sex before you are married, then you’re committing a sin. What I’d say to you is this - if you’re going to sin, then sin safely.”

In my role as a tutor at the school I have personal pastoral responsibility for 16 boys. I’d always urge them to wait in the strongest terms I can (partly because I believe it’s the right thing to do, partly because it’s my job to help reinforce the message of the school, and partly because I know in most cases their parents want them to wait and I try to back parents) - but I’ve also directed boys to contraception in cases where it’s clear that I’m not going to convince them abstinence is the right choice. I don’t want them having sex - but I want them getting a girl pregnant far less.


15 posted on 02/17/2009 6:37:07 PM PST by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: naturalman1975
That is the way ALL schools who teach what the left calls “abstinence only” sex ed. The only place “Only” comes into play is that it's the ONLY way to avoid STD’s and pregnancy 100%. Kids today ALL know and are told nonstop about contraception but where the left doesn't get it, is they need to be told there is only one 100% safe way, and abstinence is it. All the others are no guarantee. And the left hates when that is pointed out.
53 posted on 02/17/2009 8:26:13 PM PST by gidget7 (Duncan Hunter-Valley Forge Republican!)
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