gallantwarrior
Gold Member
The church acknowledges there is sin in the world and victory over sin is fleeting at best. Certainly expanding the knowledge of sex and its availability, while decreasing the voice of morality will not improve a thing. Then again, that wasn't really your intent now, was it?
I don't really have any intent, just an opinion on what is the most economical thing to do here. I don't want to get into personal details here but I can tell you that unwanted pregnancies can be brutal on people. And not just the people who cause the event. When a 16 and 17 year old pair of kids end up pregnant because they lacked access to birth control but at the same time, did not want to abort, let me tell you what happens: Two very unprepared young people with little education and little earning power and little parenting skills end up trying to do something with the odds stack incredibly against them. The mother ends up single with a child she can't support and goes on the public dole. Even if the father tires, he didn't get to go to even tech school so he's not educated enough to earn much of a living and now he has two roofs to try and maintain. The child doesn't get raised right and he ends up being a criminal and yet more cost to society.
Now... I said I didn't want to get too personal, but that's a short version, first hand story from a middle class, Christian, Baptist raised white boy who was an honor roll student and on his way to UNC to be an orthodontist. But something else happened. I am pro life but I sure do support birth control for anyone who is anywhere near realistic about how unwanted pregnancies happen. My sister, who talked this same talk that I hear right here in this place, recently admitted to me that she sat down with her 16 year old son's - girlfriends- mother and had a talk about BC. And the girl is now on it. I am SURE our church has NO IDEA she is on it but the reality is that my sister watched me not only alter the path of my life, but also bring into the world a son, whom I do love very much, but unfortunately is a statisitc, sitting in prison.
Now... you don't HAVE to take my word for it, but I am not operating in theory here.
No, your just full of excuses and generalizations. People have choices and sometimes make poor ones.
You can tell a lot about a person by the way they deal with their decisions, both good and bad.