Abstinence Only....

Democratic members of the Texas Legislature have decided that our state funded high schools teaching "Abstinence Only" are not achieving the results desired. They have decided that it has "failed" and must be changed. State Senator Leticia Van de Putte said "We are in denial", inferring that the program is broke and needs to be changed. She quoted numbers, as most outside-looking-in politicians are apt to do, that 46 percent of high school girls have already had sex. (Wouldn't that indicate that 54 percent had not). She also mentioned that 57 percent of boys in high school claim to have had sex. Along with State Representative Mike Villerreal, Van de Putte uses this info to conclude that teaching "Abstinence Only" is not working.
Senator, could it be that abstinence only is being taught with tongue in cheek? In order for these schools to receive coveted state funds they are required to teach this seemingly controversial subject. Could it be that they just go through the motions, to include the occasional "wink, wink" by the teacher.
Abstinence, like so many of our valued morals and ethical behaviors has it's roots in biblical teaching. Perhaps if we allowed the bible back in our schools...perhaps if we embraced it's Author, then this and other subjects would have a greater positive impact on the future leaders of this great nation. If we as parents teach our children a value system based on our faith and then the school system is allowed to ridicule those same teachings we will all fail.
We must not allow this important program to end based on statistics! Instead we must rise to a higher standard of teaching. Teaching abstinence must not be allowed to go they way of other perceived failures. As a nation we learn from our failures, and with determination aim to be better without compromise. We have already laid cracks in the foundation of the family by accepting homosexuality as a trait instead of as someone's choice to ignore the biblical definition of husband and wife, to ignore God's gift of intimacy granted to a man and a woman. Every year we hear from those who want to legalize drugs, it seems it may be easier than to lock up so many abusers. Ironically the largest problem with addiction is to legalized drugs! Doctors have replaced the street pusher by writing prescriptions for every new "syndrome" that comes along. Evidently that is easier than dealing with the patient's real problem, easier than being a physician.
Senator Van de Putte don't take this direction with teaching our children alternatives to abstinence, instead do what we have done as a nation from our beginning; recognize that without understanding that we are better because of our belief in God, all the programs in the world will be for naught. Recognize that without true effort to succeed we have no hope.
"America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them." James Michener