Comments for Truth, Lies, and the Abstinence Study: Right Again! at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 5 out of 5 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Wed, 22 May 2013 05:14:04 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2010/truth-lies-and-the-abstinence-study-right-again.html#comment-4409 More kids than you might suspect resent what they are being taught. I teach abstinence to confirmation classes, often in lower middle class parishes. I ask them: "Doesn't MTV treat you like you are animals, as though you can't control yourselves and need condoms so you won't kill yourselves?" The implicit criticism in the question resonates with them. I add that the Church takes the opposite view: that they they are not animals, but all potential saints, called to seek holiness. - Dan Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:43:34 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2010/truth-lies-and-the-abstinence-study-right-again.html#comment-4070 The state of Colorado embraced abstinence based education? Ridgeview Classical Schools Fort Collins, Colorado taught abstinence in gender divided classrooms for years. Until the state embraced abstinence. Now you may teach abstinence, if and only if your teach everything else. Colorado requires health or sex-ed courses to teach everything or nothing. By statue abstinence alone cannot be taught. Wisdom? Unfortunate proof that "someone" really doesn't want teens to abstain. - Kim Miller Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:45:21 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2010/truth-lies-and-the-abstinence-study-right-again.html#comment-4057 One of the investigators (interviewed on NPR) made it clear that students were taught to wait until they can bear such consequences. I wonder if a different program, one taught based on moral principles (waiting until marriage) would have been as successful. While I support the RC position on the matter; more studies are needed to show the latter empirically. We'll Hope they'll show such consequences can't be healthily handled outside marriage. Note: this study focused primarily on 12-year olds. - JJS Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:03:54 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2010/truth-lies-and-the-abstinence-study-right-again.html#comment-4056 If only it were this simple life would be good, but in reading the study, it seems that it specifically leaves out religion. Supposedly the emphasis was on the consequences of early sex, STD's, etc. and not on any moral basis. That is the only reason the members of the MSM would dare even report on this study, much less praise the results. However, I have no problem taking miracles one at a time and in small steps. The results speak for themselves now maybe we can move further down the path. - Chris Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:47:22 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2010/truth-lies-and-the-abstinence-study-right-again.html#comment-4054 Oh! I can just hear it now. This study is a throw back to medieval thinking. Back to the days when the Church controlled our lives, peeking into our bedrooms and condemning all sexual behavior short of procreation. Another example of irrational religious intrusion even into our science.This study is the work of Fundamentalists. The chastity belt is back. And so the liberal elitists are cringing, for only they know what is best. Well, too bad. Here it is. In your face. Abstinence may just work. - Willie Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:33:11 +0100