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01-20-05, 06:17 AM
Hillary: Just Say Condom!
January 18, 2005
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by Kevin McCullough
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Hillary is steamed. There's not enough condom talk in the White House to suit her. Or maybe she just wants her own catch-phrase a la' Nancy Reagan. Whatever the case she's speaking out and is forming a startling new advocacy - for condoms.
It was no secret that condom use in America under her husband's leadership was at an all time, er high. A lot of things were, the flow of pornography, teen-pregnancy, abortion - and yes the use of, discussion of, demonstrations in public schools of - condoms.
More than one set of parents in every school district in America was startled by the words, "Mom, Dad, you'll never guess what we did with a banana in class today..."
Yep, in Clinton Country "Condoms are King".
Hence Hillary Clinton's recent comments to the gay advocacy magazine The Advocate.
Although the Bush administration officially supports the "ABC" HIV prevention model--abstinence, be faithful, use condoms--Clinton says far too much emphasis is placed on abstinence rather than on condom use. "ABC is a good strategy, but it has three parts to it, and we need to remind the Administration of that," Clinton said at an awards dinner for the International Women's Health Coalition in New York City. "There are so many strategies that we know work, and we are not yet fully committed in our government to implementing those strategies."
The "so many strategies" part we can get to...but is she really concerned that condoms are what we need to focus on more?
Does she know that Planned Parenthood actually refuses to report statutory rape between men who are significantly of age (27 years of age on average) and girls who are not (15 years of age on average)?
Does she know that the entire teen portion of Planned Parenthood's web-site, which continues to be promoted in most public schools through the local PP clinics, encourages massive sexual experimentation? Sometimes directly promoting such ventures to children as young as 6 and 11 years of age?
Does she not see that every movie coming out of Hollywood these days seems to reinforce the idea that "abstinence is for losers" - and if you think differently you are to be labeled "freak of nature"?
She opined about the "many strategies" that we "know work and are not yet fully committed in our government to implementing". Is she speaking of abstinence? No!
What she said is true. We know - for example - that the only way a teen can be 100% sure that he will not catch a sexually transmitted disease is to not engage in sexual activity. The only way a 15 year old girl can be assured that she will not get pregnant is to remain abstinent.
And on Bush's watch, the very administration she seems so intent on degrading, STD growth, teen pregnancy, and abortion are all in sharp decline. Funny enough - the President's message is one of abstinence.
In Hillary's mind, like so many on the radical left, there is no belief in moral absolutes. Therefore principles that even make sense outside of any form of religious instruction are thrown out with the bathwater.
Speaking "progressively" about sexual issues has always been good for a liberal's campaign pocketbook. Undoubtedly Hillary will prove this true again.
It's just too bad that she will not be as equally devoted to speak truthfully about what is good for our children in an increasingly dangerous world.
And even if she won't it appears the new generation of teen-agers is.
"Just say no..." at least until marriage.
Kevin McCullough
Ellie
January 18, 2005
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by Kevin McCullough
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Hillary is steamed. There's not enough condom talk in the White House to suit her. Or maybe she just wants her own catch-phrase a la' Nancy Reagan. Whatever the case she's speaking out and is forming a startling new advocacy - for condoms.
It was no secret that condom use in America under her husband's leadership was at an all time, er high. A lot of things were, the flow of pornography, teen-pregnancy, abortion - and yes the use of, discussion of, demonstrations in public schools of - condoms.
More than one set of parents in every school district in America was startled by the words, "Mom, Dad, you'll never guess what we did with a banana in class today..."
Yep, in Clinton Country "Condoms are King".
Hence Hillary Clinton's recent comments to the gay advocacy magazine The Advocate.
Although the Bush administration officially supports the "ABC" HIV prevention model--abstinence, be faithful, use condoms--Clinton says far too much emphasis is placed on abstinence rather than on condom use. "ABC is a good strategy, but it has three parts to it, and we need to remind the Administration of that," Clinton said at an awards dinner for the International Women's Health Coalition in New York City. "There are so many strategies that we know work, and we are not yet fully committed in our government to implementing those strategies."
The "so many strategies" part we can get to...but is she really concerned that condoms are what we need to focus on more?
Does she know that Planned Parenthood actually refuses to report statutory rape between men who are significantly of age (27 years of age on average) and girls who are not (15 years of age on average)?
Does she know that the entire teen portion of Planned Parenthood's web-site, which continues to be promoted in most public schools through the local PP clinics, encourages massive sexual experimentation? Sometimes directly promoting such ventures to children as young as 6 and 11 years of age?
Does she not see that every movie coming out of Hollywood these days seems to reinforce the idea that "abstinence is for losers" - and if you think differently you are to be labeled "freak of nature"?
She opined about the "many strategies" that we "know work and are not yet fully committed in our government to implementing". Is she speaking of abstinence? No!
What she said is true. We know - for example - that the only way a teen can be 100% sure that he will not catch a sexually transmitted disease is to not engage in sexual activity. The only way a 15 year old girl can be assured that she will not get pregnant is to remain abstinent.
And on Bush's watch, the very administration she seems so intent on degrading, STD growth, teen pregnancy, and abortion are all in sharp decline. Funny enough - the President's message is one of abstinence.
In Hillary's mind, like so many on the radical left, there is no belief in moral absolutes. Therefore principles that even make sense outside of any form of religious instruction are thrown out with the bathwater.
Speaking "progressively" about sexual issues has always been good for a liberal's campaign pocketbook. Undoubtedly Hillary will prove this true again.
It's just too bad that she will not be as equally devoted to speak truthfully about what is good for our children in an increasingly dangerous world.
And even if she won't it appears the new generation of teen-agers is.
"Just say no..." at least until marriage.
Kevin McCullough
Ellie