Archive for the 'Sexuality' Category

Just released this morning, here’s the seventh installment of The Mona Lisa Project, a series of undercover investigative videos from UCLA student Lila Rose and Live Action:

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If you asked 100 people at random if they believed abstinence education is effective, most of them would probably say no.

Most would probably say that teaching abstinence is “unrealistic”, that it doesn’t work, and that schools should instead be teaching so-called “comprehensive” sex education.

A big part of the reason why so many people believe abstinence education is ineffective is because its opponents — which include Planned Parenthood, NARAL, NOW, and other major pro-abortion groups — have relentlessly tub-thumping for years trying to convince people that it is so, such that it’s now one of those things that “everybody knows”.

And most mainstream media outlets have gone along with getting this message out there.

So ingrained in popular consciousness is this idea that when the Washington Post reported on a “landmark” study released Monday that demonstrated remarkable comparative effectiveness of abstinence education vs. so-called “comprehensive” sex education, they couldn’t bring themselves to fully admit what the research showed.

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Sex 180: the next revolution by Chip Ingram and Tim Walker will equip us to be modern-day revolutionaries to change the way our culture views sex. With a modern style, the book catches your interest right away, resulting in a compelling book that led me to renew it from the library at least 7 times. I’ll review some of the basic ideas of the book.

How can we start a revolution though…aren’t we just young adults trying to make sense of our lives, not to mention love? The authors say that we don’t have to have fantastic speaking skills or a mesmerizing personality because the revolution will start in our hearts and lives before it moves outward: “You just have to believe what God says about sex and live out what you’re talking about.” (p. 41) As they put it, it is a revolution of one that begins in us first before moving outward.

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Recently, I finally broke down and read Stephanie Myer’s Twilight. Around the same time I started reading Sex 180: the next revolution by Chip Ingram and Tim Walker. Strangely enough, they combine to show important things about our culture and sex.

According to Sex 180, Hollywood’s way of finding love starts with the physical, goes to emotional, next to social, then to psychological, and lastly to the spiritual.

In Twilight, Bella and Edward’s relationship starts out with the physical and their chemistry. She can’t keep her eyes off of this mysterious and gorgeous teenager, and ogles him. Even she can sense that this is bad:

“I couldn’t allow him to have this level of influence over me. It was pathetic. More than pathetic, it was unhealthy.” p. 74

Yet, Bella completely ignores all of the warning signs about her infatuation with Edward. He warns her that she should stay away, but she does not listen. She believes that he is “bad”–but not “dangerous.” She doesn’t fear that she is Edward’s “heroin”–her smell matches his exact taste for blood.

Moreover, they test their limits by kissing frequently and they sleep together, although they do not have sex. Yet their relationship is very physical, and some of theses actions are very sensuous and would normally lead to “going to far.”

You see the emotional in their relationship. She falls “irrevocably” in love with him, even though she barely know him.

According to Sex 180, the social is meeting friends and family. Bella meets Edward’s family, all of who accept and love her except for Rosie, and Bella finally reluctantly introduces Edward to her dad.

In the psychological stage, they question their relationship and Edward thinks it would be better if they did not see each other. By the end of the book, they’re still together, but this relationship if sure to come up with more serious problems.

The Spiritual phase is when God is finally part of their relationship–according the Sex 180–usually the wedding. I read that in the Twilight saga, they will not be married until the fourth book. But, even in the first book, there is a troubling aspect: Bella totally loves Edward and wants to become a vampire like Edward, even if it means losing her soul.

Let me repeat: Bella totally loves Edward and wants to become a vampire like Edward, even if it means losing her soul. No one is worth giving up your spiritual life for. It shows how unhealthy such relationships can be.

In Sex 180, our relationships should be the opposite–a correct triangle with the largest part (the base) on the bottom. Our relationships should be founded with the spiritual first then the Psychological, social, emotional, and–lastly–the physical. This is God’s intention for our relationships, because if God is not holding our love life together, nothing will.

This is meant to show how our culture thinks our relationships should be. If you are a Twilight fan, please don’t be offended, but take a closer look at Bella and Edward’s relationships to evaluate if such a relationship would be pleasing to God. On a second look it might appear that vampires, our culture, and God’s laws do not equal true love and God’s plans for sexuality.

Just released, here’s the sixth installment of The Mona Lisa Project, a series of undercover investigative videos from UCLA student Lila Rose and Live Action:

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**Warning: This post includes graphic language from a Planned Parenthood website.**

For years, pro-lifers have been warning about the dangers of teenwire.com, Planned Parenthood’s website for teens. (Pro-life blogger Dawn Eden wrote one of the best articles on why Teenwire is so bad in the Christian magazine Touchstone a few years back.)

But now, Teenwire is no longer Teenwire.

It’s now Teen Talk, according to teenwire.com’s Facebook page:

Basically: new look, same content.

But no matter how “fancy-pants” Planned Parenthood wants to dress it up, the advice it gives is never in the best interests of teens’ physical health (not to mention spiritual health).

Use your own good judgment to decide if you want to check out Teen Talk, and definitely don’t watch any of the videos if little kids are around. (more…)

If you asked 100 people at random if they believed abstinence education is effective, most of them would probably say no.

Most would probably say that teaching abstinence is “unrealistic”, that it doesn’t work, and that schools should instead be teaching so-called “comprehensive” sex education.

A big part of the reason why so many people believe abstinence education is ineffective is because its opponents — which include Planned Parenthood, NARAL, NOW, and other major pro-abortion groups — have done quite a job of convincing people that this is so.

And most mainstream media outlets have gone along with getting this message out there. That’s why it’s not uncommon in a story dealing with sex education to see the “failure” of abstinence education reported as an accomplished fact.

This is what went through my head recently as I read a Chicago Tribune article about the ongoing debate over sex education programs in the state of Illinois.

At one point, the article referred to “a federal report in 2007 [which] found that abstinence programs had little effect on changing teen behavior”. This appeared in the context of a paragraph that otherwise contained statistics.

Clearly, the reporter who wrote the story was presenting it as a fact that abstinence education is proven to be ineffective.

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Just released this morning, here’s the fifth installment of The Mona Lisa Project, a series of undercover investigative videos from UCLA student Lila Rose and Live Action Films:

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Is there a pattern here?

The second installment of Live Action Films‘ Mona Lisa Project was just released:

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Just released this morning, here’s the first installment of The Mona Lisa Project, a series of undercover investigative videos from UCLA student Lila Rose and Live Action Films:

Indiana Planned Parenthood Covers Up Sexual Abuse of 13-year Old

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A couple days ago I was interviewed by a local TV station for a story dealing with teen pregnancy and the debate over abstinence education vs. so-called comprehensive sex education.

I can’t seem to link directly to the story, but you can watch it by going here. Then, in the search field below the video screen, type in “teen pregnancy on the rise”, and it should be the first result.

Overall, I think, the story was presented about as fairly as we could hope for.

Interestingly, the interviewee representing the “other” side of the issue, Soo Ji Min, works for the Illinois Caucus of Adolescent Health (ICAH).

As I’ve mentioned here previously on the GFL blog, two years ago ICAH held its (adults-only) annual fundraiser at the Playboy offices. Last year, their (adults-only) fundraiser featured a stripper. (more…)

We’ve heard before how bad Teenwire is. Now, Planned Parenthood has a new website aimed at teens, and American Life League looks at it in the latest ALL Report.

Use your own good judgment to decide if you want to watch the ALL Report, and keep in mind ALL’s disclaimer:

While our report does NOT present the nasty stuff, please use great discretion when viewing the contents of the site, and be sure not to watch any of the videos with kids around.

For those in the “pro-choice” movement, all they have to say about how to prevent STDs is: Use condoms. That’s all they have to say because it’s all they can say, and it’s all they can say because they believe it’s unrealistic to expect anyone—especially teens—from practicing self-control and chastity.

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If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you might remember the Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health (ICAH).

In partnership with Planned Parenthood, ICAH is part of a coalition called the Illinois Campaign for Responsible Sex Education. (ICAH and the ICRSE apparently operate out of the same office, as they have the same mailing address.)

The Campaign’s goal is to strip all funding of abstinence education for Illinois schools and instead require them to use so-called comprehensive sex education programs.

You may also remember that two years ago, ICAH’s annual fundraiser was held at the headquarters of Playboy magazine in downtown Chicago. I took part in a protest of the event, and wrote about it here.

Tickets to the adults-only event cost $75, and those who kicked in an extra $50 were also entitled to “a tour of the Playboy offices and art collection” as well as a VIP reception with Christie Hefner.

Christie Hefner (the daughter of Hugh Hefner, the founder of Playboy), has been its CEO since 1982. It was she who decided that the company could make more money by producing increasingly harder-core pornography — something that even her father was reluctant to do for a long time.

ICAH’s 2007 fundraiser — also an adults-only event — featured a stripper and was held at “Chicago’s premier liquor spa”.

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At a campaign stop in Johnstown, PA this Saturday, Barack Obama was asked, if he were elected president, how his administration would deal with HIV/AIDS and preventing STDs in young girls.

Obama responded:

– or we give them really expensive surgery and we don’t spend money on the front end keeping people healthy in the first place. So when it comes specifically to HIV/AIDS, the most important prevention is education, which should include — which should include abstinence education and teaching the children — teaching children, you know, that sex is not something casual. But it should also include — it should also include other, you know, information about contraception because, look, I’ve got two daughters, 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals.

But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby. I don’t want them punished with an STD at the age of 16. You know, so it doesn’t make sense to not give them information.

First, regarding this last part: If Obama really is interested in not withholding information from teenagers that will help them avoid getting an STD, what kind of information is he talking about? (more…)

I’ve said before that it’s fairly common for us to get hate mail at Pro-Life Action League/Generations for Life. We’ve especially gotten a lot the past several months during the ongoing fight against Aurora Planned Parenthood.

Many of these messages criticize us for fighting Planned Parenthood because, you know, abortion isn’t the only thing Planned Parenthood does.

One guy who wrote us last month plainly said — and these are his exact words — “Yes, it is wrong to kill babies but you can’t say that all Planned Parenthood does is kill babies.” (more…)