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Originally Posted by Baron Opal
If teaching kids about the benefits of condoms persuades some to use them, would not teaching about abstinence persuade some kids to not have sex before marriage? I don't see this as a bad thing. If we are attempting to improve society by diminishing the spread of STDs and reducing unwanted or teen pregnancies certainly a multiplicity of stratagies is appropriate.
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The multiplicity of strategies certainly appears to be the most practical approach - the problem is that most evangelicals consider abstinence the only permissible option. That may be their belief, which is acceptable and even laudable IMO, but if most of us are honest, we all did things in our youth we shouldn't have done. If these same people who only preach abstinence found out their kids had had sex, would they not love them enough to hope that at least they had used protection?