So it seems the sequence of events were:
1. Poor,sexually active, but smart inner city kids wanted to have safe sex but couldn't afford condoms so they stole them.
2. CVS decided to lock up the condoms.
3. The impoverished & horny kids decided to have unprotected sex.
4. 9 months to a year later, the CVS manager noticed a rise in shrinkage in the baby forumla aisle. He begins locking that stuff up as well.
Can't we give the poor people condoms? If they can't afford condoms, how are they supposed to properly raise a kid? What about STD's? If they can't even afford condoms, what kind of health insurance can they possibly have?
This got me to wondering where President Bush stands on the issue. Apparently he would preach abstinence until marriage, that is his strategy for preventing pregnancy & HIV. To see the statistics for the state of Texas on teenage sexuality during his tenure as governor, click here. To summarize, it appears the fear of going to Hell was not enough to dissuade teenagers from having premarital sex.
Now that he has become President, he has undertaken to stem the tide of AIDS in Africa, as outlined in one of his State of the Union addresses. I'm not sure how he expects to accomplish that without advocating the use of condoms, especially among people who may not even have ever heard of Jesus, much less believe that he will punish them for having sex before marriage. We shall see.
2 comments:
Once again, your ignorance of the world seems to have manifested itself quite nicely.
Christianity has existed in Africa for two millennia. The Coptic Church, today prominent in Egypt, Ethiopia and neighboring countries, was according to Christian tradition, established by the apostle Mark approximately AD 42.
You may or may not know this but Bush wasn't around in AD 42.
Wow, it must be nice to have a dedicated adversary...
I looked at the wording of your paragraph about Africa and Jesus, I think what you actually said makes sense. And arguing about the minutia of a post that is meant to be somewhat comedic is pretty lame.
If everybody in Africa knew all about Jesus, evangelical missions to that continent would essentially be fraud.
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