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Motto: "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God"
Quite prevalent these days is that arm of the Republican Party which preaches abstinence
only as a matter of political doctrine . You know, it's the position where Republicans want
abstinence only taught in schools as the only form of safe sex. Recently, the media
implicitly tried to pit Sarah Palin, who has backed abstinence only education, against
daughter Bristol Palin, who recently said that telling youngsters to be abstinent was "not
realistic at all." With abstinence education, I've heard it numerous times from many
Republicans of the same persuasion. It is a political tool.
For when for the time was it the Republican platform to call for abstinence only education?
Are not the Republicans the party of freedom, liberty, and limited government? If we truly
want to limit governmental influence and control over economical issues, then should we not
apply the same limits here? True Republicans insist that government has no right to bail
out big business. Remember? Likewise, true Republicans also insist that they have no right
to bail out parents who fail to do their job. The school system shouldn't teach safe sex, but
they shouldn't teach abstinence, either. It's none of their business. That was easy.
Should not the Republican position on the sex question be that We Have No Position? Our
position is that parents are the best decision makers when it comes to choices of this form.
We are the party that empowers people not the government.
Now, I only use the term "we" very loosely to include myself as a Republican because I only
camp out in the Republican Party occasionally with good people of true conservative
character. This party needs a recovery and issues like the one before us are causing
people by the thousands to leave the party. The Republican position in elections to come
must be that we are the party of limited government. The power rests with the people and
the abilities which they have to best control their economic as well as their personal
destinies.
only as a matter of political doctrine . You know, it's the position where Republicans want
abstinence only taught in schools as the only form of safe sex. Recently, the media
implicitly tried to pit Sarah Palin, who has backed abstinence only education, against
daughter Bristol Palin, who recently said that telling youngsters to be abstinent was "not
realistic at all." With abstinence education, I've heard it numerous times from many
Republicans of the same persuasion. It is a political tool.
For when for the time was it the Republican platform to call for abstinence only education?
Are not the Republicans the party of freedom, liberty, and limited government? If we truly
want to limit governmental influence and control over economical issues, then should we not
apply the same limits here? True Republicans insist that government has no right to bail
out big business. Remember? Likewise, true Republicans also insist that they have no right
to bail out parents who fail to do their job. The school system shouldn't teach safe sex, but
they shouldn't teach abstinence, either. It's none of their business. That was easy.
Should not the Republican position on the sex question be that We Have No Position? Our
position is that parents are the best decision makers when it comes to choices of this form.
We are the party that empowers people not the government.
Now, I only use the term "we" very loosely to include myself as a Republican because I only
camp out in the Republican Party occasionally with good people of true conservative
character. This party needs a recovery and issues like the one before us are causing
people by the thousands to leave the party. The Republican position in elections to come
must be that we are the party of limited government. The power rests with the people and
the abilities which they have to best control their economic as well as their personal
destinies.
| Abstinent Republicans: Why the GOP is Wrong on Abstinence by John T. Lewis February 19, 2009 |