Theocracy Fails ... And Kills

We know that kids subjected to abstinence only education do not succeed in delaying pre-marital sex and, when abstinence fails, neglect to take the necessary steps to prevent pregencay or STD's.

But all this sex (to say nothing of HIV and other diseases), it's the fault of the '60's and the sexual revolution, no?

No.

Most Americans Have Had Premarital Sex
By DAVID CRARY (AP National Writer)
From Associated Press December 19, 2006 8:53 PM EST

NEW YORK - More than nine out of 10 Americans, men and women alike, have had premarital sex, according to a new study. The high rates extend even to women born in the 1940s, challenging perceptions that people were more chaste in the past.

"This is reality-check research," said the study's author, Lawrence Finer.

"Premarital sex is normal behavior for the vast majority of Americans, and has been for decades."

... Finer said the likelihood of Americans having sex before marriage has remained stable since the 1950s, though people now wait longer to get married and thus are sexually active as singles for extensive periods.

The study found women virtually as likely as men to engage in premarital sex, even those born decades ago. Among women born between 1950 and 1978, at least 91 percent had had premarital sex by age 30, he said, while among those born in the 1940s, 88 percent had done so by age 44.

"The data clearly show that the majority of older teens and adults have already had sex before marriage, which calls into question the federal government's funding of abstinence-only-until-marriage programs for 12- to 29-year-olds," Finer said.

Under the Bush administration, such programs have received hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding.

"It would be more effective," Finer said, "to provide young people with the skills and information they need to be safe once they become sexually active - which nearly everyone eventually will."

So we have kids raised by kids and genital drip because some sexually twisted Jesus-Jumpers want morality to replace reality.

Jesus, save us from your followers.