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05-08-2009, 01:18 AM | #1 | |
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http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/o...rital_sex.html
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05-08-2009, 01:33 AM | #2 |
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Mormon leaders aren't against polygamous relationships? News to me.
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To some extent, I guess I am a product of my social times because illegitimacy doesn't strike me as a scourge either, so I'm not sure I believe there should be such public statements. It is a bit jarring to see Bristol Palin out there advocating for teen abstinence. Do you think she will come up in YW lessons this week, and is that how you would teach the topic? |
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05-08-2009, 03:19 PM | #4 |
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I haven't read the article, but I have a hard time believing that illegitimacy isn't a major social problem. How many black kids in America are raised by a single parent? 70%?
How many kids don't have a father? The LDS church, by its nature, I think is uncomfortable in social intervention in society at large, unlike some churches. |
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I also don't dispute that there are sometimes great social costs, particularly when we're talking teen pregnancy. But we don't find it so shocking as we used to. I'm also not sure the LDS church has to make social interventions. But what about some social commentary on the topic. Do we address the social costs of teen pregnancy among our teens, for example? (which I would do sans the example of Bristol Palin, as I suggested above). Have you ever heard of the Charles Crittendon Mission? I did a research paper about this organization at one point, and it was fascinating to read about the evolition of that mission, a religious one, which went from trying to save prostitutes to trying to save teen mothers, to trying to get babies from teen mothers for adoptive parents, to basically nothing. |
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Jarring? Seems like she's an ideal candidate to speak on the topic.
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Except that she's flip flopped on it. Even after her child's birth she said abstinence was "unrealistic." Her parents have since gotten her to dump the boyfriend and her tune has changed. I think it's a shame for her that she's been thrown into the public limelight. That wasn't her choice. But my cynical side seems to tell me this most recent statement from her has something to do with making her mom's christian right friends happy.
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As to the talk-show circuit: do you have some inside info that Bristol is not tending her newborn?
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But what do I know? Just the other day I was ruminating on whether I think 30-something single sisters (the spinsters, if you will), ought to be able to go ahead and find a sperm donor and have kids if they want to. |
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