Bad Ideas and Good Ideas
— Posted by John (February 19, 2007 at 5:04 pm)
If you’re an adult and you proposition a young teenager, you go to jail.
If you’re an adult and you proposition a young teenager over the Internet, you go to jail.
If you’re an adult and you go out in public and give condoms to young teenagers, you go to jail collect a paycheck from the New York City Health Department.
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On the other hand, a group of college students from Project Plus have a much better idea:
Yesterday [Valentine’s Day], on hundreds of college campuses nationwide, students were handed a Hershey’s kiss with a free condom. This “Condom and a Kiss” campaign has been going on for several years and is a way for students who practice contraception or support it to spread their message and their products.
But yesterday Project Plus … reached out to our peers with a message that “True Love is worth more than Contraception”. We had full sized Hershey’s Chocolate Bars with that message on the front, and we handed them all out (360 bars) in less than 2 hours…
The theme of the chocolate bar give-away was “Without Contraception, You get so much more”, an analogy pertaining to the tiny Hershey’s Kisses that the “Condom and a Kiss” campaign hands out with their product, compared to full sized Hershey’s bars we had. Inside the candy wrapper we explained this briefly, saying, “It makes sense that condoms are handed out today with nothing more than a tiny chocolate kiss. This reflects how little love you can express while using one. Using contraception tells your lover, ‘I don’t want to share every part of myself with you.’”
Read the whole thing here.
HT: Jill Stanek
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Young Christian Woman says:
I hope there was something about abstinence there, right? Not just encouraging people to have sex with whoever, so long as you don’t use a condom?
Comment posted February 20th, 2007 at 8:20 am
Mike says:
YCM,
I agree. Someone just sent me an email of a website with Chris Stefanick speaking to High School students live on Chastity. Has anyone heard the talk? He is awesome! You can listen to it here…
http://www.pureloveclub.com/seminars/index.php?id=3
Mike
Comment posted February 20th, 2007 at 3:57 pm
mary kay says:
Brilliant! A little sanity in a world gone mad!
mk
Comment posted February 21st, 2007 at 5:37 am
Michael-2 says:
Here is a good read on the effectiveness of the Sympto-Thermal method of Natural family planning:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6375261.stm
Remember folks, Natural family planning (NFP) is not now advocated just because it tends to be pro-life, but it tends to be pro-marriage.
There are good roads and there are bad roads. In modern marriage contraception, especially the systemic type with Pills and Patch, is a bad road. It is bad not because it is easy to drive but because it takes you to places you did not originally want to go. NFP is a good road even if it is a bit narrow and tanks time and effort to get stabilized.
Comment posted February 22nd, 2007 at 2:06 am
Generations for Life » Blog Archive » NFP As Effective As Contraception says:
[…] In a comment on John’s post, Good Ideas Bad Ideas, Mike-2 gave a link to an article on a study done in Germany about Natural Family Planning. I think it’s worth posting about. You gotta love hearing positive things about NFP in the news. Although the article focuses on the effectiveness of NFP as a contraceptive, it’s a step in the right direction. When a couple uses NFP, they can’t help but begin to view the body in a differently. […]
Comment posted February 22nd, 2007 at 4:43 pm
Young Christian Woman says:
Still waiting for stats on how Natural family planning compares with letting God do the family planning….
Comment posted February 23rd, 2007 at 9:14 am
Michael-2 says:
Young Christian Woman replys: “Still waiting for stats on how Natural family planning compares with letting God do the family planning…. ”
Perhaps in some ways letting God do the family planning is more trusting in God. It certainly is more of less the historical Christian norm. Otherwise if people were not in a position to have children they were asked to abstain totally. I suspect the masses knew that this would not be done by most people, so there was probably something of a social lie here.
Maybe, just maybe NFP is something of a new theological and moral puzzle for Christians to ponder over, but not spend too much time bickering and yelling about it. A bit of mystery here?
We do not seize too much control when we use NFP, unlike the case of contraception via the Pill or even barriers.
Peace be with you
Comment posted February 24th, 2007 at 12:06 am