Critics Say Brazil’s Teen Abstinence Push Reflects ‘Ecumenical Neocon Pact’

Crux ^ | 7/25/21 | Eduardo Campos Lima

[marshmallow]

São Paulo, Brazil – Evangelical politicians have introduced bills in states and towns all over Brazil to promote sexual abstinence among teens, boosted by a wave of conservatism in the country under President Jair Bolsonaro. Catholic reaction has been with mixed, as Charismatic Catholic Renewal movements generally support the measures while bishops have been mostly silent.

The most recent, and notorious, proposition was made by a city lawmaker in São Paulo. Rinaldi Digilio, a Foursquare Church minister and a member of the Social Liberal Party (PSL) with which Bolsonaro was affiliated when he was elected in 2018, presented a bill in order to create an “I Chose to Wait Week” in Brazil’s most populous city.

Digilio’s idea is to introduce dates in the school calendar to discuss teenage pregnancy prevention. The bill’s name alludes to a well-known campaign in Brazil, “I Chose to Wait,” created years ago by the Evangelical pastors Nelson Junior and Angela Cristina. They lead an institute that has the same name and have been promoting sexual abstinence before marriage throughout the country.

In São Paulo State, lawmaker Leticia Aguiar, also a member of PSL, presented a bill to establish a state-wide “I Chose to Wait” program. Aguiar argues it’s “not about sexual abstinence and does not aim at suspending the right to or replacing existing contraceptive methods.” The idea, she says, is to raise awareness on “the potential consequences of premature pregnancy.”

Damares Alves, Bolsonaro’s Minister of Women, Family, and Human Rights, created a similar campaign in February of 2020. An Evangelical pastor, Alves said it was the first step in the establishment of a “program of premature sex prevention.” Her initiative ended up being eclipsed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

[Jan_Sobieski]

Premarital sex (fornication) has almost destroyed America. Only evil people promote it

[daniel1212]

"Evangelical politicians have introduced bills in states and towns all over Brazil to promote sexual abstinence among teens, boosted by a wave of conservatism in the country under President Jair Bolsonaro. Catholic reaction has been with mixed, as Charismatic Catholic Renewal movements generally support the measures while bishops have been mostly silent. "

. Apparently these abstinence Catholics do not understand that they are not to act like Bible Christians for "...the one duty of the multitude is to allow themselves to be led, and, like a docile flock, to follow the Pastors ." - VEHEMENTER NOS, an Encyclical of Pope Pius X promulgated on February 11, 1906. Meanwhile the official Catholic Bible for America refrains from naming fornication

For the NAB as well as the slghtly revised version, the NABRE, will not use render “porneia” as “sexual immorality” or anything sexual in places such as simply rendering the words for fornication/fornicator as "immorality" or "immoral persons" among the many occurrences of the words for sexual immorality. (Matthew 5:32 Matthew 15:19 Matthew 19:9 Mark 7:21 John 8:41 Acts 15:20 Acts 15:29 Acts 21:25 Romans 1:29 1 Corinthians 5:1 1 Corinthians 5:9 1 Corinthians 5:10 1 Corinthians 5:11 1 Corinthians 6:9 1 Corinthians 6:13 1 Corinthians 6:18 1 Corinthians 5:9 ,10,11; 7:2; 6:9; 1 Corinthians 10:8 2 Corinthians 12:21 Galatians 5:19 Ephesians 5:3 Colossians 3:5 1 Thessalonians 4:3 Hebrews 12:16 Jude 7 Revelation 2:14,20,21; 9:21; 14:8;17:2,4; 18:3,9; 19:2) even though in most cases it is in a sexual context.

[daniel1212]

Evangelical ping.