With High Premarital Sex And Abortions Rates, Evangelicals Say It's Time To Talk About Sex

[appleannie1]

(RNS) The statistics, some evangelicals say, can no longer be ignored.

Eighty percent of young evangelicals have engaged in premarital sex, according to a new video from the National Association of Evangelicals. and almost a third of evangelicals' unplanned pregnancies end in abortion.

It's time to speak honestly about sex because abstinence campaigns and anti-abortion crusades often aren't resonating in their own pews, evangelical leaders say.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/23/evangelicals-sex-frank-talk_n_1443062.html?ref=religion

Oh my. Aren't they the ones shutting down Planned Parenthood and bombing abortion centers? Does this mean their kids have normal hormones?

[Occulus]

1. Oh, so NOW they are concerned about their own actions?

Fuck them. ALL of them. Right in the ear.

[nolabear]

2. Well that WOULD solve one problem.

And I'd LOVE to be a fly on the wall during THOSE birds and bees talks.

[appleannie1]

5. That would stop unwanted pregnancies all right.

[4th law of robotics]

3. A step in the right direction?

We'll see, but I hope so.

Sex education shouldn't even be an issue these days.

[LiberalFighter]

4. Hmmm a higher rate of religious fanatics having premarital sex

than those in mainstream reasonable religions or atheists?

[Initech]

6. Hey - they pushed for these bullshit laws - they have to live with 'em.

If they really want to get serious about reversing their damaging policies then we'll talk.

[DippyDem]

7. Evangelicals...slow learners and Darwinists. nt

[MiddleFingerMom]

8. So... Evangelicals...

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[enough]

9. This is demographics. There's nothing they can do about the passage of time.

Younger evangelicals are obviously not as paralyzed by fear of sex. They're having sex (and abortions) no matter what their elders tell them. Just as younger Catholics are using contraception no matter what the church says.

Seems like a positive development to me.

[Lucy Goosey]

10. Wait, are they acknowledging reality?

Are they admitting they were wrong about something? Are they letting facts trump beliefs?

This must be very scary for them.

[MineralMan]

11. Maybe they can dig up those old films

of the horrors of sex, complete with diseased genitalia, etc. Start showing them to the children in kindergarten and repeat weekly until they graduate from high school.

That ought to do it, I think. Is this smilie needed?

[bongbong]

12. fundies

> Eighty percent of young evangelicals have engaged in premarital sex,

As always for conservatives, it's "Do as I say, not as I do". If these insane nutjobs really believed in all their religious mumbo-jumbo, it boggles the mind how they can lie so often.

Oh wait, according to them, you can lie, cheat, steal, murder, etc, etc all you want. Just gotta talk to the voices in your head about how sorry you are, and you get another "I can still go to heaven" card.