This sort of virtue signaling ceremony isn’t the right way to do it.
How do you know? Maybe it’s not what you would do, but how do you know what effect it has had? For all you know, there may be many of those young ladies who quietly honored that pledge. What’s wrong with that? You really have no right whatsoever to say it isn’t right. You only have the right to not partake if you don’t agree.
I’ll agree with you to this extent: These types of events are no replacement for not only knowing what to believe and told to believe - but teaching them making sure they know *why* to believe it. “checklist morals” are not an effective means of teaching morals.
To repeat what was said above: Some of the worst things in the world find their roots in promiscuity. Poverty, broken relationships, broken homes, weak and/or non-existent marriages, fatherless homes, etc. which all also commonly lead to numerous other societal problems.
And accepting some perversions which what has lead to the acceptance of others - if promiscuity was not first accepted, neither are other things we are now seeing as increasingly acceptable - such as taking toddlers and elementary age kids to strip shows and having them put money down the underwear of the strippers while the parents look on in amusement even filming and sharing it on their social media. We didn’t get there without going to the other places first.