Liberals Don’t Understand Conservatives

And, vice versa.  An example of this comes way inside an article entitled ”Sex-Ed Less Effective in Red States, Study Says”:

Yet the analysis failed to consider pregnancy rates, which Cavazos-Rehg said are more difficult to obtain than birthrates. Could it be that, despite sex education, girls in both conservative and liberal states are getting pregnant at about the same rate, and that the girls in Arkansas are carrying their babies to term, perhaps as a result of higher religiosity, a lack of access to abortion services, or both?

Could it be?  Do ya think?  How about completing such a study before stating:

The findings suggest that the social structure of the state, such as the degree of conservatism, can undermine the effect of the sex curricula.

Yep, they would -- if the desired effect of the sex curricula is abortion. I speak from experience.  Had my daughter chosen abortion when she found out she was pregnant, we would not have our first grandson. She would not have married the young father, so we wouldn’t have our blessed first granddaughter, nor the great-grands she shares with us.  A church would have a different pastor’s wife, our church would have a different deacon – the list goes on and one, but all those events resulted because her values included the life of an embryo.  The choice of abortion was broached by her physician and a liberal clergyman.  We left the decision to her and I thank God for her decision to keep her child.

Yes, our education of our daughter failed.  That’s our fault as parents, not society’s, schools’ or any portion governmental failure.  At that time, we were not regularly attending a church, either.  Another failure on our part.  We, as parents, learned from that and our children did, too.

We’ve learned that applied religious beliefs have different results than simple knowledge of religious beliefs.  But that’s an entirely different subject.  This one is a matter of choice – chosen actions that resulted in pregnancy.  Both understood responsibility for the results of their actions, even if they didn’t think about that during pleasure.

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. (1 Corinthians 7:1-2 KJV)

That’s a better order, husband, wife, then children.  Because children are important – God knows them from the womb.

But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts. I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly. (Psalms 22:9-10 KJV)

Isaiah has some good verses about God knowing us from the womb, but I like this one best:

Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. (Jeremiah 1:5 KJV)

So, yes – I think “that the girls in Arkansas are carrying their babies to term, perhaps as a result of higher religiosity.”  And, if lowering the teen birth rate means additional abortions, I find that very regrettable.

Thank you for the soap box.