Nothing beats the "keep your zipper zipped" method, though, does it. Nobody ever got an STD by doing that, either.
I don't depend upon governments to teach my family it's morals.
Good, you shouldn't. Neither do I. But it would be nice if the government wouldn't step in to undermine the morals I try to teach.
Speaking of a nanny state, though, I'm surprised that you don't recognize this as part and parcel of a nanny state. Undermine parental authority over young girls, and teach them to screw around outside of marriage ... and then, when they have illegitimate kids, who's going to step in to pay the bills? Why the nanny government, of course! Daddy's not around, so you need a paternalistic welfare state to pay for the chillun. It's worked so well in the black community, after all.
Teaching people to be sexually irresponsible at a young age is the nanny state agenda. Teaching kids to wait until marriage, and supporting parents who want to teach that, is the conservative agenda.
Teaching people to be sexually irresponsible at a young age is the nanny state agenda. Teaching kids to wait until marriage, and supporting parents who want to teach that, is the conservative agenda.
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Do you remember when we had "blue laws"? It didn't work - did it? It wasn't fair to Saturday Sabbath observers - was it?
I don't think any "nanny state agenda is to teach people to be sexually irresponsible at a young age". Our culture is what is falling into loose sexual moral conduct.
I heard a Hutterite minister say that his group was "in the world but not of the world". My point is that the nation can not be turned into a sin free zone. Actually - when those ads show for products that one finds inappropriate - it might be a good starting point for family conversation about how wrong the product is.
You seem like a great person and I though you might like seeing these verses:
3 - Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD,
The fruit of the womb is a reward.
4 - Like arrows in the hand of a warrior,
So are the children of one’s youth.
5 - Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them;
They shall not be ashamed,
But shall speak with their enemies in the gate.
Psalm 127 (New King James Version)
11 - As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird— No birth, no pregnancy, and no conception!
12 - Though they bring up their children, Yet I will bereave them to the last man. Yes, woe to them when I depart from them!
13 - Just as I saw Ephraim like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place, So Ephraim will bring out his children to the murderer.”
14 - Give them, O LORD— What will You give? Give them a miscarrying womb And dry breasts!
15 - “ All their wickedness is in Gilgal, For there I hated them. Because of the evil of their deeds I will drive them from My house; I will love them no more. All their princes are rebellious.
16 - Ephraim is stricken, Their root is dried up; They shall bear no fruit. Yes, were they to bear children, I would kill the darlings of their womb.”
17 - My God will cast them away, Because they did not obey Him; And they shall be wanderers among the nations.
Hosea 9 (New King James Version)